Andrew Newton previews ‘the Gold Cup trial’

Tthe ‘Trials Day’ Cheltenham fixture will be staged on Saturday January 29 and is the final fixture at Prestbury Park before the tapes go up for the Festival on March 15.With the meeting over only a single day, we are packed with some decent contests, one of which is the Cotswold Chase, billed as a Gold Cup trial.Let’s look at the race in a bit more detail.The race has a ‘Gold Cup Trial’ tag to it, but that billing is certainly more in name than actually producing winners of the Cheltenham...