Case retains faith in Deep Trouble

Updated: Thursday, 15 Jan 2015 10:36 | Comments Deep Trouble (centre in yellow in black) has not won yet over fences

Ben Case has not lost faith in Punchestown Festival winner Deep Trouble despite him failing to win in his first three outings over fences.

Third to the useful Three Kingdoms on his chasing debut, he was then pulled up behind Coneygree before shaping much better at Kempton over Christmas when he would have been placed in the Wayward Lad Chase won by Vibrato Valtat but for falling at the last.

He will head to Huntingdon next month before Case decides on a Cheltenham target.

"He ran very well first time at Leicester behind Three Kingdoms but it turned into a sprint and then I ran him back too quick at Newbury, where he was keen on dead ground so I put a line through that," said Case.

"He showed what he was capable of at Kempton and he still had a bit left when he fell. He would have been second at least I think. "After that fall he was a bit stiff and sore so we gave him a little break.

"He'll go to Huntingdon in mid-February and after that we'll decide on the Arkle or the Grand Annual.

"We know he goes on better ground so he'll have plenty of options in the spring."

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