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Article: It's odds on Paul's turn
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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IT would be by no means the first time that a bookmaker knew
something that punters didn't and most certainly not the first time
that one took a calculated risk in luring the mug fish into the net.
The Paddy Power firm has offered to return all losing stakes if a
horse trained by Paul Nicholls should take the valuable handicap
chase run under its banner at Cheltenham on Saturday.
Given that the champion trainer has three of the first five in an
open ante-post market -- Poquelin, Chapoturgeon and Tatenen -- the
gesture might seem overly philanthropic.
Nicholls, however, has not merely yet to win the two and a half
mile contest, in any of its sponsorship guises (the current
incumbent followed ...