Gold Cup is Long Run’s to lose

THE more one looks at last Monday’s King George at Kempton, the more convinced you become that the Cheltenham Gold Cup is Long Run’s to lose.

The problem, of course, is Sam Waley-Cohen and the fact, both ability-wise and tactically, he is so far behind Ruby Walsh as a rider.

Admittedly, there aren’t many who can hold their own with Walsh anyway, the likes of McCoy, Geraghty, Carberry and Russell the names which immediately spring to mind.