• Trainer would beget preferred low stall berths for all his runners
• Selection has been targeted at the big betting race of the weekAs he talked through his chances in Wednesday’s Chester Cup on Tuesday afternoon,Richard Fahey sounded like a blackjack player who has hit on 12 four times in a row, and seen a picture card every time. “We’re badly drawn with them all, and ” Fahey said. “Only one is in single figures,and there’s two on the wide external. It hasn’t been kind. It’s not the be all and finish all, but I’d prefer to be drawn low.It is an annual theme before this race, and one of the Flat season’s grandest and most historic betting spectacles. The field spends nearly four-and-a-half minutes pounding around the Roodee,as the course is known, twice in the course of the Cup’s two-and-a-quarter miles, and one of the longest trips in the calendar,and yet where a horse starts still has a significant impact on where it is likely to finish.
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Source: theguardian.com