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The Coral Gold Cup is Britain's best staying handicap chase - and it isn't close

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Coral Gold Cup Handicap Chase (Premier Handicap) | 3m2f | 4yo+ | ITV3/RTV

The build-up to the Grand National, Cheltenham Festival and Christmas racing programme starts a long way out – in most of those cases it has started already. But none will feature a staying handicap chase as hot at the Coral Gold Cup.

This is not a subjective argument. By the best measures that I can use, the Coral Gold Cup is a harder race to compete in than the National, Welsh National or the Ultima at Cheltenham.

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