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Posting non horse-related issues will be light for the rest of this week, because the best four days of the year have arrived.
Cheltenham week is sacrosanct in the Pollard household. The other 51 weeks of the year are simply preparation for Cheltenham.
My ante post book this year is paltry. The halcyon Best Mate years (when I backed him at 20/1 for his first Gold Cup and then used a large slice of the profits every year to back him on the day of his victory for the next year's race) are over. I've had an long-standing each way investment at long odds on Pigeon Island, who happens to be my favourite horse in training, and that looks quite good as he's now down to 10/1 in the opener today. But I can't say I am certain he'll win, not least because I've been advised by the stable that Khyber Kim has to be backed, so I've done him as a saver.