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A quartet of leading chances from Paul Nicholls' stable put in some good work this morning.


We took four of our big Festival guns for a racecourse gallop this morning, and they all fired nicely.

They all worked over 2m, going a nice steady gallop, then quickening up in the final furlong.

Denman (Sam Thomas) worked with Big Buck's (Harry Skelton), and Poquelin (Ian Popham) worked with Ghizao (Nick Scholfield).

All four went nicely, but it was not a serious gallop. It was just a nice trip out for them.

I revealed Denman had a soft palate operation here last night and the reason why we gave him that was to give him every possible chance of winning at Cheltenham.

And he went well this morning, and luckily that put Paul Barber, watching the gallop, in a good mood.

So I think I am winning the battle to run Aiteen Thirtythree in the RSA Chase at the Festival!

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