'We’re just not very happy with him' - Ante-post favourite Real Gain scratched from Cambridgeshire
Ante-post favourite Real Gain has been scratched from Saturday’s bet365 Cambridgeshire (3.40).
The four-year-old had been the 12-1 market leader with the race sponsor for the £175,000 event but has been taken out of the Newmarket Heritage Handicap by trainer Richard Hughes.
Real Gain won three of his first four starts including when justifying 11-4 favouritism over the Cambridgeshire course and distance, scoring by five and a half lengths in a handicap at the same meeting last year.
The son of Profitable was gelded after finishing fifth in the Group 3 Darley Stakes and was tenth on his seasonal debut in the Spring Cup at Newbury.
Wathnan Racing purchased the then 101-rated performer prior to Royal Ascot where he beat only one of his 28 rivals in the Royal Hunt Cup. Hughes had no explanation for the poor form displayed by the 9-1 shot who was last seen finishing ninth in the Chesterfield Cup at Glorious Goodwood.
Real Gain has slipped to a mark of 97 but will not attempt to secure back-to-back wins at the Cambridgeshire meeting.
Hughes, who won the race as a rider on Cap Juluca for Roger Charlton in 1995, said: “We’re just not very happy with him so I can’t run.”
Wathnan will likely still have big-race representation across the three-day meeting, which gets under way on Thursday, with Queen Mary winner Leovanni among the confirmations for the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes.
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