Cheltenham Gold Cup 2013 - Friday, 15th March
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The Aon Chase offers Gold Cup horses with one last chance to get a good run in falling as it does in February of each year at Newbury, nevertheless it has turned into a worthy trial to the Gold Cup since its first running in 2000. It can offer those horses that need a tune up ready for the big race the perfect opportunity to have a run out in competitive company after Christmas.
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In recent years both Kauto Star in 2007 and Denman in 2008 won the Aon Chase before heading to Cheltenham the following month to pick up the Gold Cup, which only serves to highlight the potential importance of this race to punters having a Gold Cup bet. As well as Gold Cup horses we may well see one or two runners in the Denman field that maybe heading towards Aintree and a tilt at the Grand National at the start of April.
We shall be following the race in 2012 as always so punters will be able to track the form of all the major runners just a month or so ahead of the 2012 Gold Cup.
12:40 Betfair Denman Chase (Grade 2) (Class 1, 3m)
1.Long Run - Mr S Waley-Cohen - N Henderson - 4/7f
2.Burton Port - B Geraghty - N Henderson - 15/2
5 Ran
The Gold Cup takes place on the final day of the 2013 Cheltenham Festival and is the feature race on Friday.
Even with a superb racecard for each of the four days, each has its own feature race. The first of these is the Champion Hurdle odds which is usually the fourth race on the Tuesday.
Following quickly after Cheltenham, comes the most popular race of the season. Aintree plays host to the forty Grand National Runners in what is always an exciting race.
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