THE longer you spend looking at the field for this afternoon’s Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury, the more chances you can see, the more cases you can make. It’s the nature of these things, races on which there has been a long-term ante post market.

We have been looking at possible Hennessy permutations for weeks now, some with Coneygree in, some with Coneygree out. It’s like getting a hint for a subject for a debating competition two weeks before the debate and constructing potential arguments around it. Now we have the motion, now it’s time see it all played out.