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There have been a slew of different contenders emerging into the reckoning for the upcoming Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the 2015 Cheltenham Festival. There appears to be, in lieu of the usual over-hyped odds-on selection, that we have a pair of talented young jumpers duelling it out for the title of outright betting favourite.
As it currently stands, punters will find Willy Mullins’ Douvan sitting as the betting favourite for the festival opener. He emerged onto the scene following a victory at Gowran Park when he defeated a talented field of eight...
Much will be made of the Leopardstown result and it will result in one of those two contenders seeing their price drop and becoming the official second favourite. There is a decent price gap between those two and the next best-price contender Champagne Fever who trades at either 12/1 or as high as 25/1 depending on whom you’re betting with right now.
The most interesting factor in the race is the genuine difference in prices between books with plenty of wagering outlets offering up massive prices compared to others who are offering a run of the mill...
Now that the Boxing Day fixture at Kempton is officially behind us we can all start looking towards the festival as some big contenders look poised to pursue the biggest prize in jumps racing. The three mile chasing division is a bit weaker right now than it has been over the last few years but that lack of overall depth shouldn’t take away from the pure class of some of these contenders.
The big story at Kempton, obviously, was Silviniaco Conti’s emphatic frontrunning victory against a relatively talented field. There were plenty of punters out there trying to beat Paul Nicholls widely-touted charge but they...
In the 3:10 King George VI Chase it’s going to be awfully hard to look past the Paul Nicholls tandem in the mix here with Silviniaco Conti and Al Ferof both looking very good going forward. But there are a few interesting options in here that could spring a surprise or be ready to capitalize on any mistakes made by the leading contenders.
Obviously, beyond the Nicholls entry, Champagne Fever is the one to watch as he trades as high as 7/2. He picked up a Grade 2 victory at Clonmel just a few weeks ago and he traded at 8/11 for the big race. He came in second at the Cheltenham Festival last year to Western...
The 1:25 is a Class 3 handicap chase going 2m4f110y and there are a few in here who could take this one. With Stellar Notion boasting a very solid recent record and looking likely to kick on in the coming races, Paddy Brennan’s mount will take some beating here and if it’s to happen we will likely be looking at top weight River Maigue who has the effective Henderson/Geraghty combo working in his favour.
The Boxing Day fixture at Kempton is always one of the most highly-anticipated days on the National Hunt calendar. We’ve got another stellar looking iteration of the King George V Chase in addition to the Grade 1 Christmas Hurdle where the widely-touted Faugheen is set to go off in the neighbourhood of 2/5 in what many expect to be an absolute roll over with the five other contenders in the mix.
In addition to the pair of Grade 1 contests, we have a solid selection of listed action which works well with the relatively smaller fields that punters have to...
He’s being very ambitiously campaigned by Harry Fry and, with only four races under belt so far, it’s a real test for him to come up against some of the company he’ll be taking on here but he showed that he can handle the distance and pace he’ll likely get in this 2m contest so it’s not entirely surprising that he’s trading short - but some might wonder whether it’s credible that he be this short.
Sign Of A Victory looks to be the one to beat here, but only marginally if the odds are to be genuinely believed. He enters this race off a listed victory at Ascot back at the start of November and has likely been pointed at this race for quite some time.
He’s a very interesting opportunity here with that having been his first real genuine step up in quality as he had been campaigned in Class 3 and 4 contests prior to that - finishing well and winning all but one of his efforts in novice hurdle company.
He was well-backed, going off as the 15/8 favourite, when pointed towards that race at Ascot. The presence of Barry Geraghty throughout the last few races has been very helpful and you get the feeling that, from looking at his race record, that he likely...
We had a fantastic weekend of jumps racing just finish up and it’s already time to look ahead to one of the feature handicap hurdles of the entire National Hunt season as the Ladbroke is now upon us. This 2m contest over smaller obstacles is one of the big betting races of the pre-holiday season fixtures and you can bank on some very interesting movement in the odds as we get closer to the race.
The field right now remains at a full 41 runners and that will be whittled down in the next few days when we shed a significant portion of the field on Wednesday...
In the 2:35 at Cheltenham we’ve got the Grade 2 Albert Bartlett’s Novices’ Hurdle and the story seems to be about the Nigel Twiston-Davies charge Blaklion who is being well-backed to get things back on track here after losing out to Parlour Games in what could have been his third victory on the bounce this season.
He has been in winning ways since getting things started on the absolute bottom of the barrel, point to pointing at Tinahely before scoring by 15 lengths in a Class Six race and steadily moving all the way to capturing a Grade 2...
