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Bet on Yeats’s historic bid to fail at Royal Ascot on Thursday

By Bernie | June 17, 2009

A year ago we told you to bet on Yeats to win the Ascot Gold Cup – and we were right. The horse beat Geordieland to bag its third straight Gold Cup win – and Johnny Murtagh’s mount is well-backed to make it four in a row at Ascot tomorrow.

But a fourth straight win would be a truly historic achievement for Yeats, who is now eight years old. He has shown signs of losing his awesome staying power – and it must be a surprise to anyone but the most romantic of punters that he is around 9/4 to win the Gold Cup again.

He can be laid at 3.25 on Betfair to lose the race, and either Ryan Moore’s mount Patkai and last year’s beaten runner-up Geordieland could beat him this time out. That must be the lay of the festival.

Lay a 5-point bet on Yeats for a liability of 11.25 points. It’s a risk worth taking given his age and fading form. This is no time to be romantic.

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