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…
Category: Cheltenham 2018 tips
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…
Cheltenham Festival 2018 ante-post tips
Below you’ll find our ante-post selections for Cheltenham Festival 2018, along with key updates regarding their chances. Supreme Novices’ Hurdle: Samcro @16/1 (highly unlikely to run) 13th Jan: despite the market suggesting the Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle on the Wednesday is his intended target, we backed him for the two-mile opener…
2pts win Yorkhill @7/1 non-runner-no-bet, Ryanair Chase
This weekend’s inaugural Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown, formed by merging two traditional meetings into one big weekend, might lack British entries but will certainly go some way to answering many of the questions surrounding the Irish challenge for March’s Cheltenham Festival. That’s not to say it’s all about the…
Cheltenham ante-post: 20/1 Topofthegame each-way in the Coral Cup; 16/1 Wholestone to win the Stayers' Hurdle
There’s just two months to go until Cheltenham Festival 2018 and it’s high time to start filling up the ante-post book. Last weekend’s Lanzarote Hurdle at Kempton produced a few clues to the Wednesday’s Coral Cup, with the winner William Henry, who we tipped at 13/2, reported today to be…
1pt ante-post win Samcro @16/1, Supreme Novices' Hurdle
It’s fascinating to see Cheltenham Festival’s biggest hype horse SAMCRO entered in next month’s Irish Champion Hurdle, given it’s highly unusual to pitch a novice into Grade 1 open company. Connections must smell blood after Faugheen recently bombed out of the Ryanair Hurdle at Leopardstown, blowing open the two-mile hurdling division in…