Results for tag: Long Run
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Mar 15, 2012 at 11:40:58 PM
[b]After a period of panic, Kauto Star has been cleared to challenge for a third Gold Cup. The Betfair Contrarian is confident that the 12-year-old Cheltenham Festival legend will delight all those excitedly waving his trademark green, gold and purple scarves on Friday...[/b]
[u]The holder rarely retains[/u]
This year's favourite Long Run established himself as the latest elite chaser by beating Denman and Kauto Star to the Gold Cup last March, however his progress has surprisingly stalled since, with just one victory in three outings and that an unconvincing success by half-a-length in a Grade 2 race. Also counting against the market leader is that even the mighty Kauto Star and Denman never managed to finish first two years in a row, with the dominant Best Mate (2002, 2003 and 2004)...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Jan 12, 2012 at 08:14:13 AM
'Kauto Star against Long Run - the decider'.
That may well be how the 2012 Cheltenham Gold Cup is billed in the run-up to the big day, with press coverage focused almost exclusively on the pair.
Long Run beat Kauto Star twice last season but the old champ has picked himself up off the canvas to win the Betfair Chase and King George (for a record fifth time) this winter. The duo dominate the ante-post market and that one or other of them wins in March is much the most likely outcome. It is arguable that Kauto Star, gloriously in the ascendant this season, ought to be favourite, but there's not much in it and his current price of 5.2 is only marginally longer than it should be.
Kauto Star, his credentials hard to fault, will wait to take on all comers in March. Long Run, in search...