RUBY WALSH has some dilemma for his Gold Cup ride next year, doesn’t he? After all, he has the pick of two of next year’s fancies in SunAlliance Chase winner Denman and yesterday’s champion Kauto Star.

Robert Alner believes The Listener is a classier horse than Cool Dawn, whom he saddled to victory in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1998.

Robert Alner believes The Listener has every chance of giving him a second win in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup at the Festival meeting.

WHAT makes a Gold Cup horse? Plenty of things, really, but stamina and high cruising speed are the basics.