Legendary trainer's £100,000 horse ‘will be odds on for every race' after transformation from 300-1 no-hoper
Transformed from a 300-1 no-hoper, punters are now predicting the three-year-old will be 'odds on for every race' and win his next four or five after a sensational first triumph.
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Whatsgoingonmarvin's Ayr win was just typical Sir Mark - a 300-1 previous no-hoper who showed huge improvement stepping up in trip
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In truth, the job on Whatsgoingonmarvin had all the hallmarks of a typical Sir Mark gamble.
Sent off as big as 300-1 in four previous runs, Whatsgoingonmarvin had been kept to 7f and a mile.
He never finished better than sixth and was pumped 23 lengths on his last run over a mile at Kempton before being gelded in November last year.
To many, stepping a horse up to 1m5f after that would seem like madness.
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But this is classic Sir Mark.
Having gone off astronomical odds previously, Whatsgoingonmarvin was sent off 100-30 in the Class 5 handicap at Ayr on Monday.
And, ridden by recent Queen Anne winner Paul Mulrennan, there was never a moment's worry for backers of the £100,000 son of Camelot.
He made virtually all and ran out a ready winner, scooping the £4,123 first-place prize that surely paled in comparison to the punt followers of the horse landed.
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Mulrennan was eager not to win by too much, protecting the horse's mark somewhat for the future.
And it seems Arc de Triomphe-winning Sir Mark - who
He is ready to back the horse up on Saturday and bang in another quickfire win.
Whatsgoingonmarvin is entered in four races - the most profitable of which would be the 5.45 at Southwell worth £18,581 to the winner.
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That is over 1m4f, but he has entries at Hamilton and Chester over 1m3f, 1m5f and 1m6½ respectively.
Summing up the horse, one punter wrote on X: "Whatsgoingonmarvin a proper Prescott job - that's gonna win four or five I think."
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