THOMAS Crapper does not have the profile of a typical winner of this afternoon’s feature event at Newbury, the William Hill Greatwood Gold Cup. The last 10 renewals of the race have been won by horses aged six, seven and eight, so a 10-year-old who has run 19 times over fences really should be well down your list.

But Robin Dickin’s horse could be a well-handicapped horse now, and, back at a track at which he is one for one, he could out-run odds of 9/1 today by a fair way.