Festival Focus - Gold Cup

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Festival showpiece the Cheltenham Gold Cup rounds out the Festival Focus pieces for this year and as always it promises to be a thrilling race.

At one point it looked like this year’s Gold Cup could be one of the most wide open in years, and although there are several leading contenders in with a chance of succeeding Synchronised as champion, the closer it’s got to the race the clearer it’s become that on the form book there are really only a handful of horses that can win.

So rather than be a highly competitive fare as was once expected the Gold Cup actually looks like one of the easier festival puzzles to solve this year.

Bobs Worth is a horse that I really like and if he was more of a price I’d probably be putting him up as the likely winner, but at 10/3 he doesn’t exactly scream value even though he looks for all the world like the most likely winner.