Cheltenham Challenge

[Bigsmc]

I'll give it a whirl:

Supreme Novices Hurdle - Granit Jack alt. De Valira
Arkle Challenge - Don't Push It (nap) alt. Twist Magic
Champion Hurdle Challenge - Detroit City alt. Straw Bear
William Hill Trophy - Innox alt. Ballycassidy
Sporting Index Hcp Chase - Le Duc alt. Florida Dream
Juvenile Novices Hcp - Jayo alt. Junior

Thanks Brockguy.

GL all.

[NoChanceToDance]

At last, i've managed to get my membership thing sorted. Thank you, all.

I might as well have a crack.

Supreme Novices: Granit Jack. alt, De Soto
Arkle: Another Promise. alt, Fair Along
Champion Hurdle: Hardy Eustace. alt, Straw Bear
William Hill Chase: Distant Thunder (NAP). alt, Rambling Minster
Sporting Index x-country: Star Performance. alt, Spot Thedifference
Fred Winter: Pouvoir. alt, Jayo

Sorry for the similar selections, Brockguy........ lets hope its a case of great minds think similarly!

[NoChanceToDance]

I'm too quite keen on Silver Birch at an okay price....... is it me or has he been well supposrted lately?

[brockguy]

yeah he has. well in the weigths with spot, but much worse off with head..i like him though.. I have an incling that the Arkle will be a strange race.. i quietly fancy good spirit and another promise..

[NoChanceToDance]

I REALLY fancy Another Promise, but my best mate looks after him at Ferdy's so i would have a biased view of the race.

I think we are in for several strange results this week. I think the ground will become tacky/dead, and we all know what happens when the ground gets like that. You can basically throw the form book out of the window.

I'd prefer it being heavy rather than tacky, but i think thats what we will get for the majority.

[brockguy]

and the arkle has what at least 4-5 front runners in it?? I cant see Fair Along win it at all..

[NoChanceToDance]

I still think Fair Along will get the lead. As i said to someone earlier today, ou can read the race from two different angles. He asked me "is it better to back a horse that stays further in this soft/dead ground". It depends which way you look at it. On one hand you could say yes, because it will take some getting probably and you don't want to be on something that might not get home in the ground.

BUT

On this sort of ground you might find that its hard to peg back something like Fair Along as its hard to make ground up that you have already lost of this ground and horses might not be able to close the gap as quickly as usual, especially for the stayers that might have not been able to go the early gallop.

Which is my main worry about Another promise, but i know the yard have fancied him in this for MONTHS and everything has gone to plan with him since Huntingdon. Apparently Graham said, that wasn't the normal horse at Huntingdon and he actually did well to win, he didn't give him the right feel. But he's fresh and well now.