King's Palace.

Clearly a gd ground horse...running on ground that not ideal for him...could of hampered his preperations

Not ideal by any means and having Tom Scu up front setting the fractions even more scary.

With Dismal Dave's track record in grade 1s 7/2 is very short

Aye Bally,Neither trainer or jock can be described as "a chip off the old block"

Oh god no!!esp the trainer. Likeable lad but his dad was an absolute master.

At this stage he should be realizing his training  methods aint delivering in the way his old mans did and revert to type. Maybe too late at this  stage,bigger owners passed on sadly or moved to pastures new. Probably has not the fire power of old in yard.

seary

His winning being on decent ground it came as something of a surprise to read a quote from Pipe that he sees the horse long term as a welsh national horse.