Author: Paul Davidson

3m2½f (New) New Four Eighty Restaurant At Cheltenham Festival Handicap Chase (GBB Race) (Class 2) (5yo+ 0-145) A pretty good staying chase here with a number dropping out of novice company for their first start in an open handicap. The market support for Undersupervision looks understandable, but he is yet…

2m4½f (New) Paddy Power New Year’s Day Handicap Chase (Grade 3) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (5yo+) He might currently be favourtie, but I think ALNADAM is a cracking bet for the big handicap on New Year’s Day at Cheltenham. Plenty of runners are coming into this having contested two similar…

2m6½f MansionBet Proud To Support British Racing Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase (GBB Race) (Class 3) (5yo+) FLASH COLLONGES was by far the highest-rated hurdler out of this crop of novices, but was always fancied to be a better chaser than hurdler. He was set a very tough assignment being put…

3m Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle (Qualifier) (4yo+) The top two in the market look well overbet now with the tips from pricewise yesterday evening. But I’m going to side with a proven performer in this company with A GREAT VIEW. He put in an eyecatching performance in a similar test…

2m3½f Tim Duggan Memorial Handicap Chase (Grade B) (5yo+ 0-150) There are several second-season chasers that make appeal in this Grade B handicap at Limerick, but none more than DEFI BLEU who comes into this off a very workable mark of 135. Defi Bleu finished third in the Martin Pipe…

3m6½f Coral Welsh Grand National Handicap Chase (Grade 3) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (4yo+) The Welsh National features four previous winners with the young, progressive, Secret Reprieve set to go off favourite for this twelve months on. He could join an elite group of consecutive winners and being only 6lbs…

2m1f Paddy Power Games Beginners Chase (4yo+) Haut En Couleurs looks like an exciting prospect for Willie Mullins finishing third in the Triumph Hurdle on his first start for the Closuttin handler, but he still remains very inexperienced and we are yet to see him jump a fence which makes…

3m Paddy Power Chase (Extended Handicap Chase) (Grade B) (5yo+ 0-150) Lots of chances in the Paddy Power Chase as always. Willie Mullins has got four in this and I like the chances of STONES AND ROSES at currently big odds. He’s been very lightly-raced over the last two years…

2m3½f BoyleSports Faugheen Novice Chase (Grade 1) There’s a top class field lining up in the Faugheen Novice Chase Grade 1 over at Limerick on Boxing Day, which looks a much better race than the equivalent Grade 1 Novice Chase at Leopardstown. Gabynako is just favourite with the bookies currently,…

2m3f Virgin Bet Handicap Hurdle (Class 2) A competitive handicap over at Haydock can go the way of the talented UP FOR PAROL. A nice winner of some decent novice hurdles last season, Up For Parol finished a decent third in a Grade 2 hurdle at Chepstow to Comprond (who…