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<\/p>\nThe JP McManus-owned chaser was beaten an aggregate of 94 lengths in his first two races this season and took a tired fall in the Irish Gold Cup last time out<\/p>\n
Inothwayurthinkin is back on track for the Cheltenham Gold Cup(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Inothewayurthinkin is back on course to defend his crown in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup in two weeks. The Gavin Cromwell-trained eight-year-old had the chasing world<\/a> at his feet when he denied Galopin Des Champs a hat-trick of triumphs in the National Hunt Festival\u2019s feature race last March.<\/p>\n Things took a sharp turn for the worse when Inothewayurthinkin was beaten an aggregate of 94 lengths on his first two outings of the campaign. And Cromwell conceded the JP McManus-owned gelding\u2019s title defence was \u201cup in the air\u201d after a tired fall at the final fence of the Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown last time out.<\/p>\n But McManus\u2019s racing manager Frank Berry revealed the spark to have returned in Inothewayurthinkin\u2019s homework this week.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Grand National favourite Iroko switched to Cheltenham Festival by JP McManus<\/a>READ MORE: The New Lion has ‘what it takes’ to win Champion Hurdle after Constitution Hill bombshell<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cGavin is very happy with the way he\u2019s going and hopefully he will come round in time,\u201d reported Berry. \u201cTouch wood, all is good with him so far and he\u2019ll be going there.\u201d<\/p>\n Inothewayurthinkin is 12-1 with William Hill to become the 10th horse in the Gold Cup\u2019s 102-year history to win the race twice.<\/p>\n Inothewayurthinkin: has disappointed so far this season(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n Now connections will make a final decision over whether the son of Walk In The Park will be in the Gold Cup line-up on March 13 after Inothewayurthinkin has been put through his paces during the next few days.<\/p>\n \u201cHe will do a serious bit at the weekend or early next week and they will make up their minds,\u201d added Berry.<\/p>\n \u201cBut all good so far. At the minute, everything is good with him and they seem very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n Inothewayurthinkin is seventh in the betting for the Gold Cup with Jango Baie currently the 9-2 favourite with William Hill of those entered.<\/p>\n Fact To File is actually shorter at 4-1 but he still needs to be supplemented for the race and may opt for the Ryanair Chase instead.<\/p>\n The Jukebox Man and Gaelic Warrior are both 11-2 although there is also a possibility that the latter may go for the Ryanair.<\/p>\n Galopin Des Champs has drifted out to 7-1 with Haiti Couleurs at 8-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The JP McManus-owned chaser was beaten an aggregate of 94 lengths in his first two races this season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[213566,17232,288,50823,1071,79,16,15,204651],"class_list":["post-790973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-cheltenham-gold-cup","tag-cheltenham-racecourse","tag-horse-racing","tag-jp-mcmanus","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-william-hill-ltd"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116138752470231927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Inothewayurthinkin:](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3_Cheltenham-Festival-2025-Day-Four.jpg\")
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