The Coral Cup is one of my favourite betting races of the year and our 20/1 antepost pick TOPOFTHEGAME has pleasingly lined up with close to his ideal soft ground conditions. He’s nearly halved in the price since being advised and, after a game handicap success at Sandown last month, he’s also…
Author: Joel Roberts
3pts win Altior, 15:30 Cheltenham, Wednesday
This looks a vintage renewal of the Champion Chase with the big showdown between ALTIOR and Douvan finally materialising – not to mention Altior and Min clashing for the first time since they finished 1-2 in an equally-vintage renewal of the Supreme Novices’ in 2016. Throw in reigning champ Special Tiara, Tingle…
1pt win The Last Samuri @6/1, 16:10 Cheltenham, Wednesday
Wednesday’s Cross Country Chase looks a proper race this year with the trend of increasingly classy horses and larger yards targeting it continuing. Last year’s winner Cause Of Causes, a three-time festival winner who went on to place second in the Grand National, is back to attempt a fourth consecutive…
1pt win Monalee, 14:10 Cheltenham, Wednesday
A tricky looking RSA Chase this year, but there has to be a bet given I don’t fancy the favourite Presenting Percy one bit. He won at last year’s festival in the Pertemps final, a handicap, and has been in fine form recently despite some curious placing from his lesser…
14/1 Yorkhill is overpriced in the Champion Hurdle
Cheltenham Festival finally kicks off tomorrow (Tuesday) with the course the softest it’s been for this meet in decades. For some stupid reason I’ve been golfing on top of a hill at Lilley Brook in Cheltenham today and it was decidedly squishy underfoot, while it drizzled all day too, so…
2pts win Min @12/1 non-runner no bet, Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham, Tuesday
Ruby Walsh has several enviable choices to make ahead of the Cheltenham Festival, none more so than which of Rich Ricci’s ex-Supreme Novice winners Min and Douvan in the Champion Chase. However, I’ve heard Ruby Walsh talk about the favourite Altior and I though it was telling how highly he…
1pt win Waiting Patiently @9/4, 15:35 Ascot, Saturday
The Betfair Ascot Chase is the final piece of the domestic challenge’s Grade 1 form ahead on next month’s Cheltenham Festival and we’re treated to a brilliant renewal this year despite a deluge of rain guaranteeing testing conditions. Defending champ’ Cue Card is back for more and gets his favoured…
Joel's Betfair Hurdle selection: Kayf Grace
KAYF GRACE looks the bet in a rock-solid betting puzzle that is the 2018 renewal of the Betfair Hurdle at Newbury. Nicky Henderson sends five, all with decent chances, and stable jockey Nico de Boinville has opted for the inexperienced mare, . The speed she showed in her bumper days coupled…
2pts win Altior @8/13, 15:00 Newbury, Saturday
For the simple fact that I believe ALTIOR is the best horse in training, and the best since Sprinter Sacre, I don’t really care that his sole realistic rival in Saturday’s Game Spirit Chase, Politologue, has beaten all before him this season including Fox Norton when landing the Grade 1 Tingle Creek…
Cheltenham ante-post: 2pts win Yanworth @9/1 non-runner no bet, Stayers' Hurdle
Supasundae, last year’s Coral Cup winner, has gone favourite for the three-mile Stayers’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival after taking the racing public by surprise by beating the ageing Faugheen in the two-mile Irish Champion Hurdle last weekend. Without wanting to sound like Captain Hindsight, it was little surprise to…