Cheltenham Gold Cup Runners

Below are guides to each of the gold cup runners for the 2011 Gold Cup. Which Gold Cup runners have performed well at Cheltenham before? Which runners are of a high enough class to win the Gold Cup? Which runners are likely to be in the race!!

By each of the Gold Cup runners we will also show their latest Cheltenham Gold Cup odds.

Long Run

Confirmed his promise when taking Kauto Star's crown at Kempton when landing the delayed 2010 King George and then confounded the trends followers by winning the Gold Cup at just six-years-old. A massive talent but has not the best of prep races for the defence of his crown but remains the horse to beat

Kauto Star

Defied his critics to take a marvellous fifth King George at Kempton earlier this year and became the first horse to regain the Cheltenham Gold Cup after victories in 2007 and 2009. Another win in the Gold Cup is not out of the question but he is not getting any younger

Must be hailed as one of the greatest National Hunt horses of all time.

Weird Al

Seems to be the horse most tipsters are turning to as an alternative to the big two.
Weird Al won the Charlie Hall earlier in the season and then finished third to Kauto Star and Long Run at Haydock.
Difficult to see where he is going to find the improvement to make up ten and eight lengths repsectively but he has been the subject of support in recent days and could go off at a single figure price.

Burton Port

Ran Long Run very close in a recent race at Newbury when receiving 10lbs from the winner but he had been off the track for well over a year so could be expected to improve markedly on his first run back.

Synchronised

Winner of one of Ireland's top Gold Cup trials, the Lexus at Leopardstown, Synchronised appears to have allayed fears that he is purely a soft ground handicapper with this classy win.

The ground at Cheltenham does appear to be cutting up and that may play to his strengths and he can defintely be in the first three.

Other Gold Cup Runners

Full list of all the gold cup runners and their odds at the top of the page

Keep a close eye on the latest Gold Cup Odds to help you work out the horse you want to follow.

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