There will be no jokes about tactics and mints during Punchestown’s day two festival feature because strategy is likely to be vital during the €275,000 Ladbrokes Gold Cup.
Much of it centres on Allaho and how champion jockey Paul Townend rides Willie Mullins’s star at the three-mile trip.
Allaho is favourite to beat a field with three Cheltenham Gold Cup victories between them, a defending champion with a pair of King George victories to his credit, and a reigning King George champion.
Allaho is also so versatile he would have been a perfectly legitimate contender in Tuesday’s two-mile champion chase.
Most evidence though suggests it is the intermediate two and a half mile trip at which he is all but unbeatable right now.
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