LAST month’s Paddy Power Gold Cup, at Cheltenham’s November meeting, could hold the key to this afternoon’s Nyetimber December Gold Cup, at Cheltenham’s December meeting. It often does.

It is possible to do the Paddy Power Gold Cup/December Gold Cup double. (The Mackeson/Massey Ferguson double, you would have called it once.) Pegwell Bay did the double, Senor El Betrutti did the double, Exotic Dancer did the double.