Willie Mullins’s horses were in fine form at the Cheltenham Festival, as he and Ruby Walsh racked up seven wins. One horse we’d been keeping close track of after his stable tour and a promising stable début behind Squouateur at Fairyhouse is TOWNSHEND, who was expected to run in yesterday’s County…
Author: Joel Roberts
0.5pt win Bachasson @40/1, 0.5pt win West Approach @100/1, 14:50 Cheltenham
Despite the presence of the unbeaten Barters Hill at the top of the market, the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle looks wide open this year and there’s every chance it’ll go to an outsider. We’ve already advised WEST APPROACH at 100/1 in the hope he’ll continue improving and progress into a staying chaser close…
1.5pt win Don Cossack @3/1, Cheltenham Gold Cup
The bookie bashing continued through Thursday’s Festival card with Vautour, Limini and Thistlecrack all obliging at short odds, costing them fortunes. As for my RSA Chase pick Black Hercules easily winning the JLT intead… let’s not go there. It’s Gold Cup day and we have a proper renewal to get stuck into,…
1pt win Zubayr @6/1, 0.5pt win Leoncavallo @25/1, 13:30 Cheltenham
The Triumph Hurdle is the championship event for juvenile hurdlers, open to four-year-olds and run over two miles on today’s quick ground. It often pays to follow the money horse, with the late Our Connor and Peace And Co obliged as short-priced favourites in recent years. The money has flown all season…
1pt win Bristol De Mai @5/1, 13:30 Cheltenham, Thursday
The New One may have flopped again but I doubt his trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies envisaged his Festival week going this well by the half-way point. The second half of the week could get off to a flyer if his BRISTOL DE MAI can justify ante-post favouritism in the opening JLT Novices’ Chase and notch…
1pt each-way Josses Hill w/o Vautour @12/1, 14:50 Cheltenham, Thursday
Through my eyes, the totally inexcusable bollocks that Rich Ricci and Willie Mullins came up with when justifying their switching of Vautour from the Gold Cup to Thursday’s Ryanair takes the gloss off his inevitable win. They should have run him in the Champion Chase. Water under the bridge and he’s now…
0.5pt each-way Kings Palace @12/1, 0.5pt each-way Ballynagour @25/1, 16:10 Cheltenham
Course and good ground form has been absolutely crucial this week at the Festival, with conditions faster than anything found in the form book this season. Almost everything fancied that’s shown its best on softer ground has been left trailing, with the likes of Yanworth, No More Heroes and Un…
1pt each-way treble Yanworth, More Of That, Un De Sceaux @13/1
It was business as usual for Grade 1 king Willie Mullins on the first day of Cheltenham Festival, with Douvan, Vroum Vroum Mag and, most impressively, Annie Power all bolting up – the latter in a course record time. Minella Rocco was another favourite to win in what must have…
0.5pt each-way Definitly Red @16/1, 16:50 Cheltenham, 15th March
The wait is over, spring has turned up and it’s Champion Hurdle day at Cheltenham Festival. The big race is a curious punting puzzle this year and we’re sitting on a 25/1 each-way ticket on runaway Relkeel Hurdle winner Camping Ground, who it might surprise you to know is the…
Cheltenham Festival 2016
The form is in the book, the cards are finalised (nearly), spring has turned up (late), and it’s one more sleep ’til the 2016 Cheltenham Festival. We’ll be there all four days and promise all of our tips for the day before noon, and if you haven’t followed our ante-post selections…