Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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| Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:06 AM PDT Day Three is the day with the shortest card as there are only six races to test punters, jockeys, bookmakers and trainers and here are some tips to help you along the way. Jewson Novices' Chase The race had its inaugural running at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival, not to be confused with the old Jewson Novices' Handicap Chase which has been renamed the Centenary Novices' Chase, that has now become Tuesday's seventh race. The first running of the race was won by Noble Prince trained by Paul Nolan and ridden by AP McCoy. Pertemps Final Unlike many of the races at the Cheltenham Festival this is not a race where you can easily dismiss the older horses – horses aged 9 or over have won six of the last 13 renewals of the event, probably due to the fact that this is a stamina sapping event and experience and strength counts for plenty. People looking at the Cheltenham betting need to bear this in mind. Ryanair Chase The Ryanair Chase was introduced to The Festival in 2005. It replaced the Cathcart Chase, although the conditions of the race changed slightly with it being open to all horses rather than being restricted to first and second season chasers. The first three renewals were run as Grade Two contests before it was upgraded to its current Grade One status in 2008. Ladbrokes World Hurdle The World Hurdle used to be a favourite with the Irish, who have won it nine times, most recently in 1995 with Dorans Pride. Baracouda provided a first success for France in 2002 and followed up in 2003. In 2004 and 2005, he was runner-up behind Iris's Gift and Inglis Drever respectively, while in 2006 he ran fifth behind My Way De Solzen. Baracouda's trainer Francois Doumen also saddled Kasbah Bliss to finish second in 2008 and fourth in 2009. Since 2009 though this race has been the sole preserve of the incomparable Big Buck's who bids for an unprecedented fourth consecutive win in the race this year. Anyone placing Cheltenham 2012 bets should remember this. Byrne Group Plate Probably takes the title as the most impossible if not the most impossible race of the entire four days. The last 11 winners have all started at double figure odds, and last year two 25/1 chances filled the first two spots in the race to compound the misery for punters, unless you were on the winner Holmwood Legend of course. Whatever your fancy in the race it may be worth adding in one of the longer-prices runners into the mix. Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup Whilst some of the races at the Festival have provided the Irish with a steady stream of winners this race is certainly not one of them, as things stand they are on a 29-year losing streak, their last success in the race coming in 1983 via Greasepaint. They are well represented again in the entries this year but it pays to support them in the race at your peril.  |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2012 03:52 AM PDT Alongside the Cheltenham Gold Cup this is one of the most prestigious races of the entire National Hunt season and the jewel in the crown of the first day of the Cheltenham Festival. First run in 1927 just three years after the initial running of what we would now know as the Gold Cup it attracts the very best 2m hurdlers from Britain and Ireland to compete for the title of Champion Hurdler. The roll of honour for the race reads like a who's who of hurdling history and you would have been happy to have owned or even just seen in action the five horses who have taken the crown on a record three occasions, the first of those was Hatton's Grace (1949-51) and the most recent was Istabraq (1998-2000). Istabraq would have more than likely completed the four-timer as he was favourite for the race and with it at his mercy when the 2001 Festival was abandoned due to foot and mouth disease, his bid for that record a year later ended with him being pulled up after only jumping a couple of hurdles and he was immediately retired. Those placing Cheltenham 2012 bets should remember this. The "Golden Age" of the race came without doubt came during the 1970's and early 80's, when there were several dual winners and plenty of famous names on the hurdling circuit such as Monksfield, Sea Pigeon and Night Nurse, all of whom had many exciting battles up the Cheltenham hill. People following the Cheltenham betting need to bear this in mind. Dawn Run remains the only horse to have won the Champion Hurdle and the Gold Cup, in the year she won the Champion Hurdle (1984), she was also triumphant in the Irish and French equivalents in the same year, she is also one of 17 Irish trained winners and their Hurricane Fly looks well placed to make that 18 this year. The Champion Hurdle is usually run at a flat-out gallop and all combatants need to possess a blend of speed to carry them into the race and stamina to see them up the stiff Cheltenham Hill.  |
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