Thursday’s excellent Aintree card hosts four Grade 1s, with short-priced favourites a theme of the day. Some deserve their skinny odds so it looks like a good day for an accumulator, with the opening two-mile novices’ chase 3/1-the-field and looking as good a race as any to kick one off. Nicky Henderson’s L’AMI…
Day: 6 April 2016
1pt win Diego Du Charmil @11/1, 1pt win Romain De Senam @20/1, 14:15 Aintree
Cheltenham Festival form is a dangerous thing at Aintree, as the two tracks are very different and the close proximity of the meetings means lots of horses leave their best behind at Prestbury Park. Festival winners are often priced like bankers, as the fields are generally smaller and there’s more substance to the form book…