Talking Horses: why Bet365 must hope Samcro's target doesn't change


Bookmaker has been laying well over the odds for weeks about flashy hurdler’s Supreme chance

I had a quick word with Eddie O’Leary this morning, just to confirm that next week’s target for Samcro hasn’t changed. He was clear, as he has been for weeks, that the intention is to run the star novice hurdler in the Ballymore, barring extreme ground conditions. “It would have to be brutally heavy,” he said, before Samcro’s owners would even begin to consider running him in the Supreme.

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