Horse Racing Betting Tips: A Plus Tard all set for take off in Ryanair March 11, 2020 ONLY the eight runners are set to line-up in the Ryanair Chase (2.50pm), which is one of the feature races on the penultimate day of the meeting. Last year’s winner Frodon is back to de- fend his crown with Bryony Frost in the saddle and the rain that fell earlier in the week will certainly [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Bapaume to bounce back in Marsh March 11, 2020 HORSES don’t come any more popular in Ireland than Faugheen or Samcro, so if either of them manage to win today’s opening Marsh Novices’ Chase (1.30pm), the roof will be blown off the Cheltenham grandstand. Faugheen, in particular, is adored by racing fans on both sides of the Irish Sea and the reception he got [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Penhill will make sure it’s no walk in the Park for Paisley March 11, 2020 BIG BUCK’S and Inglis Drever are two legends of the staying hurdling division and I fully expect PAISLEY PARK to join them as a multiple winner of the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle (3.30pm) this afternoon. They are all cut from the same cloth in that whatever their rivals try to do to beat them they [...]
David Pipe talks through his runners at Cheltenham on Wednesday March 10, 2020 NO RUNNERS for us at Cheltenham yesterday, but we have three today so it’s a busier day for the yard. After all the rain at the beginning of the week, the ground will be starting to dry out a little and that is often pretty hard work. We run NIGHT EDITION in the Boodles Handicap [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Tronador looks diamond of a bet in the Boodles March 10, 2020 CONDITIONS will be really tough at Cheltenham this afternoon and that could play to the strengths of the Gordon Elliott-trained TRONADOR in the Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (4.50pm). Elliott saddles five of the 22 runners in a contest he won two years ago with Veneer Of Charm and back in 2013 with Flaxen Flare. The [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Hobbs runner Definitely the one in the Champion Chase March 10, 2020 EVERY year there is always a ‘race of the Festival’ and up until yesterday morning it was undoubtedly the Betway Champion Chase (3.30pm). However, sadly reigning champion Altior was ruled out by Nicky Henderson after suffering a setback on Sunday and going lame. He just couldn’t recover in time and it’s a real shame as [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Copperhead and Minella Indo look most likely to become RSA champs March 10, 2020 AP MCCOY was a truly extraordinary sportsman and the horse named after him, Champ, will be many punters’ idea of the banker in today’s RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase (2.10pm). Nicky Henderson’s son of King’s Theatre had finished first or second on his first 11 starts, but last time in the Dipper Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Longhouse upset will be pure poetry for his backers March 10, 2020 WITH global shares taking a battering on “Black Monday”, the hordes of Irish racing fans who have descended on Cheltenham this week will be hoping to make it “Black Wednesday” for the bookmakers. A string of high-profile, short-priced favourites are set to strut their stuff around Prestbury Park this afternoon and the alarm bells will [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Bailey’s Imperial has a certain Aura about him March 9, 2020 THERE are often one or two that slip into the Northern Trust Novices’ Handicap (4.50pm) off an extremely lenient mark – the challenge is singling out which of the 20 runners that could be. The handicapper must have been wincing when the Irish-trained A Plus Tard cantered into the lead rounding the home turn 12 [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Ballyandy is a Sublime bet in wide-open Champion Hurdle March 9, 2020 WITH more rain set to fall at Cheltenham this morning, ground conditions will be soft for the Unibet Champion Hurdle (3.30pm), the feature contest on the opening day. When you also factor in that this will be the largest field assembled for the two-mile hurdling crown since Punjabi won it back in 2009, the stage [...]