Gold Cup At Cheltenham – Gold Is For Winners, Not For the Gamblers
– Gold Cup at Cheltenham – 'The Olympics' of the European horse racing calendar – Gold Cup trophy contains 10 troy ounces of gold – worth £9,000 – £620 million bets on horses, 230,000 pints of Guinness will be drunk, 9.2 tonnes of potato eaten – Since the 5th century BC, gold has been the ultimate prize to award champions and gold has been constantly and universally awarded as top prize – Gold, like the summit of human achievement, is very rare and hence precious – Gold is a great prize and a good bet but works best as store of value and better to take a 'punt' on [...]