Author: Joel Roberts

There’s every reason to believe that PIED PIPER and not ante-post favourite Fil Dor, who races for the same connections, will end up Gordon Elliott’s number one Triumph Hurdle horse. He’s been entered along with his stablemate for the Grade 1 Spring Juvenile Hurdle at the Dublin Racing Festival and…

It’s been moving day in the Ballymore market with impressive Tolworth winner Constitution Hill cut significantly as punters and the media, fuelled by recency bias and Nicky Henderson’s ramblings, ponder the sense in him taking on his stablemate Jonbon in the Supreme. More significantly perhaps, once ante-post favourite Journey With…

2m  (1m7f216y) Unibet Casino Deposit £10 Get £40 Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race)  (Class 2) (4yo+ 0-145) Eight run and I don’t like the top three in the betting. The favourite Hermes Boy might not run if the going gets too heavy and that would leave just seven runners, making each-way betting unattractive. Volkovka is…

2m4½f  (2m4f127y) (New) Paddy Power Novices’ Chase (Registered As The Dipper Novices’ Chase) (Grade 2) (GBB Race)  (Class 1) (5yo+) The Glancing Queen carries a penalty for beating moderate mares on her two chase efforts, and I suspect she’ll be outclassed if any of these prove themselves 150s horses. Race favourite L’Homme Presse will be…

3m  (2m7f213y) (New) Paddy Power Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race)  (Class 2) (4yo+) Super competitive with 14 runners. I fancy BOTOX HAS to run another huge race after being narrowly denied on his first go at three miles in handicap company, also on the New course at Cheltenham where he has never finished worse than second.…

2m4½f  (2m4f56y) (New) Dornan Engineering Relkeel Hurdle (Grade 2) (GBB Race)  (Class 1) (5yo+) GUARD YOUR DREAMS looks overpriced for Relkeel success after winning the International Hurdle in impressive fashion. Course form is assured and we know he stays the extra distance having beaten three subsequent winners over 2m4f on the old course earlier this…

2m4½f  (2m4f118y) Bank A Winner With MansionBet Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race)  (Class 2) (4yo+) A wide open handicap but I’m taking a swing at KAMAXOS hitting the frame – as he has done when chasing home two well handicapped horses on his previous two starts. He races 6lb out of the handicap, which would…

2m  (Winter) Ladbrokes Committed To Safer Gambling Handicap Hurdle  (Class 3) (3yo+ 0-140) CAPTAIN MORGS should be favourite for this as he’s got form with Betfair Exchange Hurdle 2-3 Onemorefortheroad and Garry Clermont, and has been consistently running well in handicaps amongst a high standard of British hurdlers including Soaring Glory and Guard Your…

2m  (2m11y) Coral Finale Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 1) (GBB Race)  (Class 1) (3yo) A tricky race but PORTICELLO should be favourite based on the form of his narrow second to leading British juvenile Knight’s Salute last time out, when an untidy jump at the last cost him the race. He rallied and stayed on…

3m  Ladbrokes King George VI Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race)  (Class 1) (4yo+) Every year this race is touted as a top class renewal and every year we look back on the previous year and doubt the level of the form. I think that’s nonsense and there’s no reason to doubt FRODON this…