Worth weight in gold

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 reliably thrilling Cheltenham Gold Cup yesterday.

With the first and the third home in former champion Long Run, trainer Nicky Henderson could not have picked a more fitting outcome to take his unprecedented haul at the meeting to a cool 50.

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