Beef cold Gold Cup option

THE lunacy of long-range ante-post betting for punters on National Hunt racing was surely never better illustrated than by the problems of Kicking King, Harchibald and Inglis Drever over the last few days.

There are plenty who like to play that game, but for every wager that works out there have to be literally thousands that don’t.

Glancing down the list of the market-leaders for the Gold Cup you have to be forgiven for thinking-what a motley bunch.