On Tuesday the Arkle was won in impressive fashion by Tidal Bay and he was followed home by Kruguyrova.
This afternoon in the Jewson Novices Handicap Chase (1.40) Mr Strachan runs off 10-11 and is half way down the weights. This is despite the fact that he has beaten Kruguyrova by 2 1/2 lengths this season and also been beat by just 4 lengths by Tidal Bay (Mr Strachan received 6lbs from the winner). Those two runs would put him as the second best horse in the Arkle.
More form pointers come from Mr Strachan’s chasing debut where he finished second to L’Antartique who is one of the favourites for today’s Ryan Air Chase.
Despite all this Mr Strachan is generally available at 8/1 this morning. This afternoon we could all be kicking ourselves for not having our biggest bet of the Festival on this very well handicapped horse.