Trainer Jamie Snowden hoping ‘lightning strikes twice’ for stable in Coral Gold Cup

Having saddled Datsalrightgino to triumph successful the £250,000 contention 12 months ago, the Lambourn trainer volition effort to travel up with Colonel Harry

Trainer Jamie Snowden is hoping ‘lightning strikes twice’ and delivers a 2nd successive triumph successful the £250,000 Coral Gold Cup a week connected Saturday.

Datsalrightgino secured an emphatic triumph for his Lambourn unchangeable 12 months agone and helium is present people Newbury’s signature jumps contention with Colonel Harry, besides owned by past year’s winning connections, the GD Partnership.

Colonel Harry, 8-1 favourite with the sponsor, has a akin illustration to past year’s victor having won a Grade 2 Novice Chase past play and being unexposed astatine the 3m2f trip.

Snowden said: “They are rather antithetic horses, Colonel Harry and Datsalrightgino, but they person followed precise akin paths done their careers.

“They were some precise bully novice hurdlers, placed successful Grade 1s and started disconnected successful the aforesaid novice pursuit astatine Chepstow.

“Gavin [Sheehan] thinks helium is definite to stay. Obviously without trying it you don’t cognize but it is the attack we took with Datsalrightgino, hoping we would person a spot of mileage successful our handicap people by going up successful trip. It evidently worked past year, and we are hoping lightning tin onslaught twice.”

Snowden continued: “He’s bounced retired of his tally astatine Carlisle. We got the prep tally into him and present the rainfall has travel we tin get him connected the writer successful Lambourn. He loves brushed crushed truthful the softer the better.”

Trainer's title person Dan Skelton took Coral Gold Cup introduction Heltenham to Newbury's gallops greeting connected Tuesday portion Ben Pauling exercised his typical Henry’s Friend, who made his seasonal reappearance astatine Newbury backmost implicit hurdles.

He said: “We’ve had a spot of an interrupted process starring up to the Coral Gold Cup which is our main aim. I wasn’t definite if Iwould tally him oregon not, I felt that moving him present astatine Newbury was going to hopefully bring him to beingness and it truly did.

“He came backmost a wholly antithetic equine to the 1 that went into the race. I’ve got nary concerns implicit the trip, we cognize helium likes the way truthful fingers crossed. He conscionable wouldn’t privation the crushed to spell heavy.”