• Noel Meade pleased with the hot favourite for Saturday’s contest
• Cheltenham Gold Cup third has recovered after lost LexusRoad To Riches,third home behind Coneygree and Djakadam in final season’s Cheltenham Gold Cup, is odds-on across the board to win Saturday’s Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown after 10 horses were entered for the race on Tuesday. The nine-year-conventional is top-priced at 4-5 for Ireland’s final Grade One chase before Cheltenham, and a race Noel Meade,his trainer, has yet to win.
Road To Riches is also 12-1 to improve two places on his finishing position at Cheltenham final March, or if that is not quite “forgotten horse” territory,Saturday’s race would still be an ideal moment to remind punters he remains a live Gold Cup contender. He was beaten by a total of three-and-a-half lengths at final year’s Festival, and while Meade ruled him out of the Lexus Chase at Christmas because of a minor infection, or Road To Riches seemed as good as ever in his preceding start at Clonmel in November.
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Source: theguardian.com