Shooting set to sneak into handicap Ante-post favourite Shooting Light looks set to get into Cheltenham`s Thomas Pink Gold Cup on an attractive mark after weights were published for the race today.He is on an initial 9st 10lb in the Stg#100,000 chase, in which the minimum weight carried is 10st, after going up 14lb in the official ratings for an impressive recent course win.And a 7lb rise in the weights to take him into the handicap for Saturday week`s showpiece appears on the cards as top-weight Fadalko (12st), trained by Paul Nicholls, is under a cloud following a heavy defeat at Exeter on Tuesday.If either of the next in the list, Legal Right (11st 3lb) or Bellator (11st 2lb), ended up heading the handicap it would mean a final weight of 10st 3lb or 10st 4lb for Shooting Light - who tops Coral`s betting on the race at 5-1.The favourite is one of 10 entries for four-time winning trainer Martin Pipe, whose 2000 winner Lady Cricket (7-1 with Coral) has been handed 10st 7lb.Other leading fancies include Behrajan (10st 10lb, 8-1) and Irish Grand National winner Davids Lad (10st 6lb, 8-1).Geos, a top hurdler who has yet to race over fences in Britain, has been allocated 10st 11lb. Coral betting: 5-1 Shooting Light, 7-1 Lady Cricket, 8-1 Behrajan, Davids Lad, 10-1 Arctic Copper, Foly Pleasant, 12-1 bar.nclude Behrajan (10st 10lb, 8-1) and Irish Grand National winner Davids Lad (10st 6lb, 8-1).
