By james art 
The winner of the festival last season, Skelton hoped to become a real horse on Gold Cup this season, which seemed to be the case after his first Hydok race.
He travels like the best horse in Betfair’s pursuit, just to run near the home from the Royale Pagaille course specialist.
In the immediate vicinity, the leader of Alchestra felt that the competition would take too much from his charge to run to King George on boxing day, but he was surprised at how the gelding bounced out of the race and eventually appeared in Campon.
However, a gross mistake and the fierce gallop, determined by IL Est Francais, meant that it was not unprecedented, and Skelton had been considering the Kelso Premier Chase and Aintree Bowl route.
“The idea right now is to go to Kelso and Anthri. We now get to the point where it’s next week, so it’s the most likely scenario. I will leave it in the gold bowl just if something unfavorable to the opposition happens and I do not want it, of course, “Schaalton said.
“The Gold Cup photo is obviously a little muddy behind a favorite (Galopin des Champs) and this is because of the power of my beloved and with my loved one, it’s still super, super hard to win.
“Yes, the second and third seems to be a picking up and maybe I would look at this race a little differently if he wins in Highdock, but he is not so we are not. I feel that if we go to Kelso and Anthri, it gives us two chance of going and running this spring, not one.
“If he ran into the Golden Cup, it would be the only race he would go into because he couldn’t go to Sandown right and he can’t do what’s right for the horse, short and long -term.
“I think we will have a chance to win these two competitions in the short term and we get some more experience in the long run and we can return as a contender for the Golden Cup next year.
“Of course I’m disappointed not to go to a gold glass with a horse that I thought last year that I would be, but things are changing and you have to be open to change with horses because if you only drive them once, Then you don’t do the best of them. “