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 Blue Hell @11/1, 1pt win Starchitect @14/1, 1pt win Modus @16/1, 14:10 Cheltenham
The Vincent O’Brien County Hurdle looks an incredibly difficult race to unpick. It is set to be run at a devilish pace with the ground now strictly classified as ‘Good’ at Cheltenham. Great Field sits near the top of the market for this one, but surely has to be taken…
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 win Upswing @9/1, 0.5pt EW Sambremont @16/1, 17:30 Cheltenham
Doctor Harper is 5/1 favourite for the Kim Muir, which seems an awfully short price for a handicap of this magnitude. His opening mark might be lenient, but the form of his only success over fences looks poor, dispatching of two horses rated 133 and 124 respectively. The form has…
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 win Politologue @10/1, 1pt win Arbre De Vie @12/1, 0.5pt EW Baron Alco @20/1, 14:50 Cheltenham
The Coral Cup is a great betting opportunity on day two of The Festival, and although we were a tad unlucky to see two of our selections get taken out before the race had even developed in the Ultima Handicap Chase, we are eager to get stuck in to another…
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…