Every Cheltenham Festival horses win at fancy ante-post prices, so why do some punters refuse to consider anything other than the favourite with their early bets? Simon Rowlands highlights a swathe of big-priced potential winners.

It can be difficult for a punter to have the mindset which allows that anything within reason can happen in a race, and that any of the horses contesting it can win. It may seem as if that [100.0] rag would need an act of God even to make a place, for all that e