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Tips for the Cheltenham Festival – The 2010 Champion Hurdle
After witnessing some exciting performances at the back end of 2009 and with the Cheltenham Festival and the 2010 Flat Season fast approaching, Nick Wilby picks out his top antepost tip for this year’s Cheltenham Festival.
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2010 Cheltenham Festival Preview And Betting Guide
We’re almost down to the business-end of the English jumps racing season and all signs are starting to point to Cheltenham racecourse! Everyone knows how big of a betting event this is and it always pays off to be doing your homework early.
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Ferdy Murphy takes Cheltenham hope Kalahari King to seaside
Ferdy Murphy took Kalahari King, last year’s Arkle runner-up, to Redcar beach yesterday in an attempt to beat the weather and keep the nine year-old on schedule for this season’s Champion Chase.
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Tony McCoy: 3,000 winners and counting, but is there any value in backing the champion?
Timeform’s Sam Randall ponders the merits of backing the fourteen-time champion jockey Tony McCoy and attempts to come up with some profitable alternatives.
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Rory Delargy’s Five To Follow: Hurdlers
Our Five To Follow over the bigger obstacles are proving profitable to follow – only Ere Alfie managed a run before the cold snap hit hard and he has provided us with a perfect one from one record. Hopefully the following list of hurdlers will be equally profitable and rather more prolific!
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Carberry behind Sublimity
Philip Carberry insists Sublimity could still reclaim his Champion Hurdle crown after recording two strong performances this season. The nine-year-old triumphed at Cheltenham in 2007 but has only managed one victory since, in the December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown last year.
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Races that “leave their mark”
Alan King is quoted in today’s Weekender as follows: “The plan with [Romulus D'Artaix] now will be one more run and then go for the valuable Punchestown bumper in April, as I feel he is potentially very good. That race is restricted to horses sold at the Goffs Land Rover Sale and has prize money of 100,000 euros. I am not overly tempted by the Cheltenham Festival bumper as I feel it is a race that tends to leave its mark on many horses.
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