17 runners Bet 365 gold cup Hcap bookmakers paying 3 places

Don't think there will be 17 come race day

But OP has real good point - it's antepost - we can lose money why bookies are exempt from risks it's only a place ?

16 runners should be 4 places... 8 runners 3 - that's the basics...

Shows how unregulated bookies are...

The racing post/media are a disgrace... they dont raise this at all...

In the Punchestown Gold Cup there were 8 runners antepost some if not most were doing 2 places...

I know RP has a charter with most firms to honour prices for fixed periods - they should have something similar to get bookies to commit to some of the penny pinching they do...