The decision to move this Grade 2 hurdle from the December meeting has been rewarded with a cracking renewal featuring an ex-Gold Cup hero, the reigning World Hurdle champ, a two-times Liverpool Hurdle winner and some progressive young pretenders. Even better – from a punting perspective – is the likelihood Cole Harden…
Day: 31 December 2015
1pt win Three Musketeers @7/2, Cheltenham 13:20
The Coral Cup form was given a timely boost this week with second-placed Zabana impressively winning at Leopardstown, which is a compliment to the form Three Musketeers‘s recent four-length success over Coral Cup-second Activial at Newbury. When last seen at Newbury he impressively beat L’Unique by a similar margin managed…
1pt win West Approach @10/1 or best morning price, Cheltenham 12:10
I fancied the well-bred West Approach last time out at Cheltenham, where he travelled eye-catchingly well before fading up the hill; now dropped in trip and hopefully better for the run, I’m keen to give him another go. He’s under the same ownership and out of the same dam as…