Sponsors ante-post prices for the Gold Cup and Summer Stayers Classic
With the Ladbrokes Gold Cup and Summer Stayers Classic kicking off at Monmore on Saturday night, it's time to have a look over the ante-post prices for the two competitions.
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Ladbrokes Gold Cup
It's girls on top in the outright betting for the Ladbrokes Gold Cup ahead of the first round. Slingshot Poppy strung three efforts together at the same outstanding level to comfortably win the Arc Angel of the North at Newcastle on the same night that Woltemade won the Time Northern Flat.
Jimmy Fenwick's hound is third favourite here with Mark Wallis's Strike It Skye between them. Another for Wallis is the new Towcester 460m track record holder Forgottotellya who made a decent impact at this track last Saturday night.
The competition is hugely deep with finalist last year Avarua Zlatan available at 40/1 and recent Coral Sussex Cup finalist Behemoth at 66's. The quality level is excellent for this 480m competition, with plenty of connections who will head into Saturday thinking that they have a chance.
5/2 Slingshot Poppy
3/1 Strike It Skye
6/1 Woltemade
10/1 Forgottotellya
11/1 Headford Dane
14/1 Wicky Ned
18/1 Ballymac Blanco
20/1 Goldcash Warrior
25/1 Armagh Daithi, Grouchos Gregor, Headford Cian, Wise Tournament
28/1 Arthur Bitter, Grouchos Cassie, Pain Barrier, Zenith Tanju
33/1 Brindle Bully
40/1 Avarua Zlatan, Holding Blaze, Newinn Tonic, Scooby Diamond, Sole Focus
50/1 Magical Keith, No Better Feelin, Romeo Astron, Zenith Jimbombom
66/1 Behemoth, Shake The Bottle, Zenith Duke
80/1 Anglesey Milo
100/1 Crossfield Enzo, Droopys Link, Good Teddy, Holding Aero, Holding Hollie, Venetian Nero
Ladbrokes Summer Stayers Classic
There is a little less competition at the head of the market for the Ladbrokes Summer Stayers Classic with Vhagar, Zenith Pasha and Romeo Empire the only trio that are currently available at single-figure odds ahead of the opening round.
The first of those is the defending champion, clocking 37.54 in the final 12 months ago. She didn't trap as well as she can in a recent trial stake but that should set her up well for her attempt to go back-to-back.
Zenith Pasha is the new kid on the block in terms of stayers, the winner of all three of his starts since being upped to six bends, with all three of those coming over this track and trip. Those wins have come by an average of just over six lengths and have seen him hugely impressive to the eye.
Patrick Janssens's hound is a super dual trip performer, seen just once since unable to take up his third round slot in the Derby, he was a little disappointing at Nottingham in that sole start, but he is more than capable of putting that behind him.
6/4 Vhagar
9/2 Zenith Pasha
6/1 Romeo Empire
12/1 Mad For Cash. Tooreen Rose
16/1 Carrick Scholsey, Droopys Bookem
20/1 Droopys Deploy, Fortanach Col
25/1 The Other Chief
33/1 Bombay Nutty, Bombshell Bullet, Bonus Bullet, Malcolm Bosh, Savanaregimental, So Its Strate, Venetian Mick
40/1 Betgoodwin Tutts, Burrows Charm, Droopys Scratch, Newinn Jolie, Onceina Lifetime
50/1 Ballymac Sargie, Coonough Laura, Newinn Cloud, Rapido Benny
66/1 Aero Pepinillo
80/1 Caldera Flow
100/1 Aero Boris, Bandit Paddy, Epic Rebel, Intriguing Iris, Ragdoll Rosie, Razldazl Paloma, Slick Sabre, Timmys Hunter
