Talking Horses: bookmakers accused of offering 'unrealistic' odds on Enable


John Gosden says odds of 4-6 on his star shows that bookmakers ‘don’t want anyone backing’ her at the King George

John Gosden has said that Enable faces “a tall order” in trying to win Saturday’s King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, despite being a hot favourite in the betting. The trainer accused bookmakers of trying to protect themselves by offering unrealistically short odds about his mare, who is unbeaten since April 2017.

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