Author: Joel Roberts

Paisley Park has been all the rage for the Stayers’ Hurdle since his demolition job in the Cleeve Hurdle, but I can’t take that form too seriously given West Approach – who is barely a 150 rated horse – has chased him home the last twice. I think he’s there…

DEFI DU SEUIL will win. 1pt win Defi Du Seuil @3/1, 13:30 Cheltenham, Thursday Tweet

Thursday’s Ryanair Chase looks brilliant, with so many holding live chances. The first and easiest to rule out on price grounds would be last year’s Arkle winner Footpad, who has been poor this season and has no right to be favourite for this race. His stablemate Un De Sceaux is…

Wednesday’s RSA Chase is one of the races of the week with the big Irish hope Delta Work heading the market from Santini, Topofthegame and On The Blind Side. I like last year’s Pertemps Final winner Delta Work a lot as he’s progressed into a Grade 1 horse in subsequent…

Day two; the Coral Cup; 26 runners; two bets. DANCING ON MY OWN is the first name on the list, stepping up in trip and representing the same form-line that provided Tuesday’s runaway Supreme Novices’ Hurdle winner Klassical Dream. Collateral form with that horse, which surely ran to a mark bordering…

Tuesday’s closing race, the four-mile National Hunt Chase, can go to lively 33/1 outsider MULCAHYS HILL for Warren Greatrex. Last seen over two-and-a-half miles in Grade 1 company at Sandown, which was his first run back after a wind op that ‘transformed him at home’, we shouldn’t take that form literally as…

Final declarations are in for the curtain raising Supreme Novices’ Hurdle of Cheltenham Festival 2019, due off Tuesday at 1:30, and the predictable market mover is Ruby Walsh’s choice Klassical Dream. I wouldn’t rule out him going off favourite as punters love that combo in the Supreme, but that ship…

Lots of good racing at Kempton on Saturday but the cards are real head scratchers. In the Adonis Juvenile Hurdle there’s a scarcity of hurdles experience in the race, which is why I’m backing the super-slick jumping SONG FOR SOMEONE to make his experience count. He seems to have improved since being gelded…

We’ve only advised one ante-post bet so far for the Cheltenham Festival – Clan Des Obeaux to win the Gold Cup at 10/1 – and it’s high time for another with just three weeks to go. The Supreme Novices’ and Ballymore Novices’ hurdles are open betting markets – and perhaps…

Reikers Island looks the wrong favourite in the 14.10 handicap chase, as his price suggests he’s definitely got improvement in him when that’s not assured. He’s up against an ex-Gold Cup winner in CONEYGREE and might be in for a shock when the old horse blasts off at his fairly…