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'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...