Bobs a worthy winner on rainy day in the Cotswolds
Festival form so often proves paramount and there are no better equipped horses for one week in March than Bobs Worth as he emerged triumphant in a thrilling Betfred Gold Cup.
Festival form so often proves paramount and there are no better equipped horses for one week in March than Bobs Worth as he emerged triumphant in a thrilling Betfred Gold Cup.
Bobs Worth takes the acclaim in the winner's enclosure. Picture: Reuters
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White and Gold
With the first and the third home in former champion Long Run, Nicky Henderson took his unprecedented haul at the meeting to a cool 50.
There was a record, too, for Bobs Worth, who is unbeaten in five visits to the course and, in adding to the RSA and the Albert Bartlett, he had already earned, was becoming the first since the great Flyingbolt in the 1960s to secure three different Festival events in a row.
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