Gold Cup puzzle for ice-cool Francome

John Francome is considered by many who saw him at his best to have been the finest jump jockey of all time, and he enjoyed his greatest success in the saddle on Midnight Court in the 1978 Cheltenham Gold Cup.

He now provides expert analysis and opinion as part of the Channel 4 team (as well as writing novels), and he is finding it as hard as any to pick out the winner of this year’s blue riband.