Another puzzling handicap in the shape of the Coral Cup provides us with the fifth race on day two of the Cheltenham Festival. At likely bigger odds, the winner of the Coral Cup is traditionally hard to predict and the early market signals suggest the Jonjo O’Neill-trained Get Me Out Of Here could be a possible contender along with last year’s winner Carlito Brigante. Get a free £25 bet with William Hill.
Favourite backer?
Favourites once more have underperformed in this one, only two have won since the race was introduced in 1993. The last of those was Xenophon in 2003 and we must take the 2011 favourite with a pinch of salt if recent results are anything to behold. Big price horses have gone in at this race (some as big as 33/1) and the lottery of the race could well continue in March should we see an unfancied outsider steal the headlines. Trends for the handicap are few and far between but horses at the to pend of the weights and with relatively low handicap marks have filled the placings in recent events, but it remains to be seen whether this will be the way forward again.
Chancing on an outsider with solid form and potential is probably your best bet in the Coral Cup. As far as favourites go, well to be perfectly honest they don’t go. Well, they don’t go well anyway, so it might be best to overlook them and fork out some value in the field. You’ll have your hands full however because you won’t be short of choice because twenty-eight runners contested the 2010 running.
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