Midnight Chase up for chasing from November again after last racing at the Cheltenham in March
Neil Mulholland is planning to get his trainee, Midnight Chase, back to racing in November after the horse ranked fifth in the Cheltenham Gold Cup on 18th March this season. This was the only race that the horse participated in this season under
Tom Scudamore.
Last year, however, things really got going for Midnight Chase as he ran nine times out of which he won six with jockey Dougie Costello.
To bring back the charm from last year, the trainer wants the horse to get all active and set for the races coming up in November.
Mulholland said: "He's due to be ready for November. There are several places where he could run but we're just looking for a bit of nice ground to start him off. I won't pin it down to where he's going, but he should be fit and ready to run in November”.
"He's rated 161 now so he's going to be hard to place, but if he wins one race this year it could be top-class”.
The Cheltenham Gold Cup is a Grade 1 National Hunt Chase in the United Kingdom which is for the participation of horses aged five years and older. The distance to be covered for this race is of about three mile and 2 ½ furlongs and is held at the New Course
at Cheltenham.
This Gold Cup is considered to be the most valuable and prestigious non-handicap chase in Britain as it has been reported to have offered a total prize fund of £475,000 in the year 2010.
The winner that year was Nigel Twiston-Davies’s Imperial Commander who was being ridden by Paddy Brennan that day.
This year’s claimer for the race was Nicky Henderson’s Long Run, the ride of Sam Waley-Cohen. It was in this same race that Midnight Chase was the fifth to cross the wire.
At the Cheltenham, Midnight Chase led, and then hit tenth, joined next, headed twelfth, ridden sixteen, outpaced seventeenth, had plenty to do from three out, stayed on again from two out, kept on run-in but never got any chance to either impact the winner
or reach for the any of the first three positions.
It will be after six months that Midnight Chase will race, the last one being in March so after this long break and the trainer being confident there is hardly any room for being doubtful or uncertain about the horse’s performance at the future race that
he gets a chance at.
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