Archive for the ‘Day One’

  • William Hill Trophy Early Cheltenham News
    The William Hill Trophy is the third race on the opening day of the Cheltenham festival. The race will be as intensely fought as the first two contests of the day and there is value on the market whether backing a rank outsider or the favourite. The current favourite is a horse called Blazing Bailey with a good win record. The horse is 12/1 in most places on the market. The...
    by Paul Berry at February 11th, 2011 at 08:02 am
  • Cross Country Chase Garde Champetre Betting
    The Cross Country Chase has a tough task in following the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham but there is still plenty of value and the chance for an upset for the betting customer. The current favourite for the race is a horse called Garde Champetre. This horse has winning experience of running in this race before, is in very good form and seems in very good shape. The best...
    by Paul Berry at February 10th, 2011 at 10:02 am
  • The Arkle Betting as Finians Rainbow looks one to beat at Cheltenham
    The Arkle Challenge Trophy is the second race on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival. The race is run over two miles and twelve fences with a prize purse of around £150,000 up for grabs. Finians Rainbow is the current favourite to win the race at a best price of 9/2 with Coral. This horse has a high number of career wins and has impressed a lot of people with the...
    by Paul Berry at February 10th, 2011 at 09:02 am
  • Supreme Novices Hurdle Betting Free Bets Cheltenham Cue Card shortens
    The Supreme Novice’s Hurdle opens the Cheltenham Festival each year and is one of the best races to watch with a prize pot of over £100,000. The current favourite to win the first race at the world famous event is a horse called Cue Card at 5/2 across the market. Cue Card has only run a handful of times so far but has already notched up a series of impressive wins over...
    by Paul Berry at February 3rd, 2011 at 09:02 am
  • Ghizao Arkle Chase betting looks difficult to beat
    Ghizao is 5/1 in the Cheltenham betting market and will head to the Festival high on confidence after victories on his two latest starts. Meanwhile, both of these triumphs also came over fellow leading Arkle candidate Captain Chris, who is a 14/1 chance to end a run of three successive runner-up finishes. What was most significant about these victories is that the first...
    by KieronJohnson at February 1st, 2011 at 02:02 pm
  • David Nicholson Mares Bets
    The retirement of Whiteoak, who to my mind was one of just four potential winners, has weakened this race further, as has the retirement of Candy Creek this week. I can pass on news that last season’s third Aura About You for the Paul Nolan yard is likely to make her seasonal debut in this race and I’ve heard good reports about her latest gallop where she reportedly...
    by NiallHogan at March 16th, 2010 at 04:03 pm
  • Glenfarclas Handicap Chase Tips
    MONEY BACK SPECIAL Glenfarclas Handicap Chase Tues 16:00 Paddy Power are offering a free bet worth £50 to spend on the Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap at Cheltenham today. Claim this magnificient offer here! Enda Bolger is responsible for five of the 16 runners as he seeks to continue his dominance of the Glenfarclas Handicap Chase at Cheltenham today. Handicap...
    by Paul Berry at March 16th, 2010 at 02:03 pm
  • Champion Hurdle Tips
    MONEY BACK SPECIAL Champion Hurdle Betting Tues 15:20 Paddy Power are offering a free bet worth £50 to spend on the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham today. Claim this magnificient offer here! Nicky Henderson is fearful of the challenge posed by his former inmate Khyber Kim (13/2) in the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle – despite playing a three-strong hand with Punjabi...
    by ColinPearce at March 16th, 2010 at 02:03 pm
  • Champion Hurdle Betting
    It’s been a strange couple of weeks for Nicky Henderson. Champion Hurdle Betting Firstly Binocular (10/1 with Bluesq) is out for the season with a muscle problem and now there is nothing wrong with him and McCoy says he has missed no work so the Champion Hurdle looks back on the cards. It would appear he is now going to take his chance again which means that McCoy will...
    by KieronJohnson at March 16th, 2010 at 02:03 pm
  • William Hill Trophy Free Bets
    Looking at the weights, it would appear the bottom weight here will carry only around 10st 8lbs so the 11st rule is going to be under threat (the last 10 winners carried under 11st). So I would ignore that and concentrate on the official ratings stats that say you’ve had it if rated 150+ like in the last 27 years. I don’t read much into these things but David Pipe...
    by Paul Berry at March 16th, 2010 at 02:03 pm