{"id":296773,"date":"2023-11-18T01:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=296773"},"modified":"2023-11-18T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T01:24:09","slug":"nicholls-predicting-strong-showing-from-stage-star-in-gold-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/horse-racing\/nicholls-predicting-strong-showing-from-stage-star-in-gold-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholls predicting strong showing from Stage Star in Gold Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Paul Nicholls predicting strong showing from Stage Star in Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Champion trainer backing Stage Star for a big run in Paddy Power Gold Cup<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicholls believes forecast of overnight rain will not derail Harry Cobden&#8217;s mount<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>Stage Star won Turners Novices&#8217; Chase at Cheltenham Festival in March<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Star turn champion trainer Paul Nicholls is expecting a big run from Stage Star in the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham on Saturday and says the forecast of significant overnight rain will not derail the chance of Harry Cobden\u2019s mount.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stage Star won the Turners Novices\u2019 Chase at the Festival in March before running below par in the Manifesto Chase at Aintree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Writing in his Betfair column, Nicholls said: \u2018You can put a line through his last start at Aintree which was one race too many after a busy campaign. \u2018<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Paddy Power has been the target for him since the summer and there are plenty of positives \u2014 he is brilliant fresh, having won first time out for the last three seasons. \u2018<\/p>\n<p>He likes racing left-handed, will not mind how soft the ground gets and we know he handles Cheltenham.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Neville-trained The Real Whacker is the other Festival winner in the line-up having won the three-mile Brown Advisory Novices\u2019 Chase in March.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/00\/77952653-0-image-a-2_1700268369319.jpg\" height=\"442\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Paul Nicholls is backing his horse Stage Star for a big run at Cheltenham in the Paddy Power Gold Cup<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/18\/00\/77952647-0-image-a-1_1700268364990.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Stage Star won the Turners Novices&#8217; Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in March with rider Harry Cobden<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/racing\/article-12764143\/Paul-Nicholls-Stage-Star-Paddy-Power-Gold-Cup-Cheltenham.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Nicholls predicting strong showing from Stage Star in Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham Champion trainer backing Stage Star for a big run in Paddy Power Gold Cup Nicholls believes forecast of overnight rain will not derail Harry Cobden&#8217;s mount Stage Star won Turners Novices&#8217; Chase at Cheltenham Festival in March Star turn champion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nicholls predicting strong showing from Stage Star in Gold Cup - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/horse-racing\/nicholls-predicting-strong-showing-from-stage-star-in-gold-cup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nicholls predicting strong showing from Stage Star in Gold Cup - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paul Nicholls predicting strong showing from Stage Star in Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham Champion trainer backing Stage Star for a big run in Paddy Power Gold Cup Nicholls believes forecast of overnight rain will not derail Harry Cobden&#8217;s mount Stage Star won Turners Novices&#8217; 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