Play It Again Sports Broomfield
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three.30 Cheltenham Gilded Loving cup Chase preview
Some Gold Cups revolve around a hot favourite, a horse similar Kauto Star or Best Mate who ranks amid the all-time greats, while others – like this year's renewal – are wide-open and could conceivably be won by eight or ix of the runners. Some might argue that a superstar like Best Mate is the best possible advert for bound racing, but from a punter'southward point of view, getting iv or five times your money back for finding the winner is great PR too and personally, I'll take an open Gold Cup every time. Galvin has been eased out of top spot in the betting this morning by A Plus Tard, no doubt because Rachael Blackmore will be trying to go one better than last year on Henry de Bromhead's gelding. He needs to detect one-and-a-quarter lengths to get the better of his stable companion and concluding yr'due south winner, Minella Indo, and looked like an improved performer when running abroad with the Betfair Chase at Haydock Park in Oct. He has since been narrowly browbeaten by Galvin in the Savills Chase at Leopardstown'southward Christmas coming together, only the stable's form was in a trough at the fourth dimension and Blackmore, feels she went for home a little too soon, assuasive Galvin's deep reserves of stamina to come into play every bit he stayed on strongly to border them out on the line. There has too been some money for Al Boum Photo, third last yr and the winner for the two preceding renewals, and Tornado Flyer, another Willie Mullins-trained runner who sprang a surprise in the Rex George at Kempton on Boxing 24-hour interval, while Protektorat, the leading British-trained contender for a race that has gone Ireland'due south way in five of the last vi seasons, is on the slide. He put upwardly a mighty effort under top weight in the Paddy Power Gilded Loving cup in Nov and seemed to amend for the step up in trip when successful on heavy ground over three miles at Aintree in December. He is no forlorn each-way hope, but for win purposes, Minella Indo's class grade and habit of blossoming in the spring makes him the choice of the prices for me at around 6-ane and I'll be hoping to come across him give Robbie Power a second win in this race afterward Sizing John'south triumph in 2016.
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That Willie Mullins win for The Nice Guy confirms his status equally height trainer with eight wins, and 4 more than races to come. Nobody does it better, quite frankly. And very few ever have. That'southward equalling his best ever tally of viii and he will win a record-breaking ninth acme trainer award.
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2.50pm Albert Bartlett Novice Hurdle result
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two.50pm Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle
Over this long trip they get, the last race before the big one. It's very loud out on the course, says ITV's Luke Harvey. Information technology actually is a large crowd today. El banter will be flowing ample. They become off with Ginto and Hillcrest as joint favs but at that place'south a simulated kickoff after a very long prelim. They go off with something of a jolt and fix off at 1 hell of a rate. Classic Getaway lives upwards to his name by going to the front of the field. Hill Crest doesn't jump too well over the third, and he's labouring a tad. Minella Cocooner is pushing them on, and the two Mullins horses in the pack are caught a piddling off baby-sit. Stag Horn and Archetype Getaway still lead. Thanks as they go past the stands, Ginto in fifth and sitting relatively pretty. Minella Cocooner takes information technology right up, speeding forth in his classic style and he most comes a cropper. Hill Crest nonetheless wearisome in the pack with three to jump. Loma Crest is pulled up and so is Classic Getaway. The pace has been heavy. Down the colina they become to the second last with Minella Cocooner leading. Ballygriffin Cottage coming from deep. Ginto...oh no, he's gone wrong. Minella Cocooner and the Nice Guy going to the last and the Overnice Guy who will win from Minella Cocooner. Information technology'due south a Mullins i-2, but peradventure non the Mullins we expected.
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2.50pm - Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle preview
Two of the outsiders – Falcon Eight and The Real Whacker – are non-runners only at that place is still a big field of 17 runners for the Festival's three-mile novice hurdle, a race that includes the futurity Gold Loving cup winners Minella Indo and Bobs Worth on its roll of honour. Information technology has too seen several shocks over the years – simply i of the last eight winners has started at a unmarried-effigy price – probably because it is a very dissimilar test to annihilation the runners have faced earlier, non just in terms of the trip but as well, crucially, the unrelenting pace from the off. Hillcrest, who might well have a flawless 5-5 tape had he not unseated his passenger when a rival fell in front of him at Cheltenham in January, has replaced Ginto every bit favourite this morning, with punters perhaps feeling that Ginto would have been Gordon Elliott's 2nd-string had the ante-post favourite, Minella Crooner, not been scratched due to injury terminal week. That was a big thwarting, but information technology did at to the lowest degree avert whatsoever watch-your-bets defoliation with Minella Cocooner, a Grade One winner final time for Willie Mullins. Looking beyond the market leaders, John McConnell's Bardenstown Lad looks the type to outrun his price of around sixteen-1. He was sent over for a 3-mile novice on the Old course at the October meeting hither, and so put away until his Festival prep at Musselburgh in early February. He has bags of stamina, seems certain to enjoy this test and looks a off-white each-way bet with many bookies offering five places.
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2.10pm County Hurdle result
- ane Country Human (Paul Townend) 11-4 Fav
- 2 First Street (Nico de Boinville) sixteen-1
- 3 Colonel Mustard (C J Orr) 13-two
- four West Cork (Harry Skelton) 13-2
- 26 ran
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2.10pm County Hurdle
The horses have a slow walk to the line equally State Human goes to 11/four as they get underway over the eight hurdles. State Human being looks great on the exterior inthe early stages, Stepney Causeway in the lead almost goes over but rights himself as they surge past the Best Mate stand and the charabanc park. Tritonic is up there. Stepney Causeway leads every bit they go past halfway. State Man still making no significant motility from midfield where he is with Westward Cork. Two to clear but a long way to go, and Cask Mate goes over. Surprise Package and Country Man become as they go to the terminal. State Man goes to the front at the last and speeds to the line. Another win for Mullins and Townend, Beginning Street in second, Colonel Mustard in 3rd, West Cork in 4th. Ii Mullins favourites become in in the outset 2 races.
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2.10pm County Hurdle preview
The image of Suprise Package cantering all over his rivals in terminal Saturday'due south Imperial Loving cup is fresh in the memory hither, and any 1 of the 18 – yes, xviii – Irish gaelic-trained runners in the 26-strong field could hands observe a stone or more and do something like here. In fact, a dozen of them probably could and yet not end in the frame, such is the nature of this race now with potentially high-class novices replacing the hardened 2-mile handicap hurdlers of yesteryear in the field. Suprise Package will pick upwards a £50,000 bonus if he follows upwards hither, while Cormier, a winner at Musselburgh'southward valuable recent meeting, is chasing a £100,000 bonus for a win. State Human being, the likely favourite, is one of the most unexposed runners in the field, savage two out when odds-on – and looking the likely winner – for his Irish debut in December and and then hosed up in a maiden hurdle at Limerick. He could prove to exist 20lb well in, but he has a like profile to Gaelic Warrior, who was beaten at very short odds in Tuesday's Fred Winter, and in that location are each-way alternatives aplenty. West Cork, whose trainer, Dan Skelton, has won this iii times since 2016, won the Greatwood Hurdle over the Old class here in November and has been put away since a good run at Ascot in December, just the less-exposed I Similar To Move It, touched off in the ultra-competitive Betfair Hurdle last time, makes slightly more than appeal for me every bit his contempo grade is stronger and he has simply merely five runs over hurdles behind him.
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one.30 Triumph Hurdle result
- i. Vauban (Paul Townend) 6-four Fav
- 2. Fil Dor (Davy Russell) eleven-ii
- 3. Pied Piper (Jack Kennedy) vii-2
- 12 ran
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1.thirty Triumph Hurdle
The roar goes upward from that huge crowd and they set off with Porticello under Jamie Moore takes the early lead. Fil Dor is upwards at that place with Vauban stalking them, who puts in a rather unceremonious bound as they go past the stands. With four to spring merely a long way to go, Porticello and Fil Dor stay well in front. The colina serves to bunch them back upward again every bit they head to the 2nd-last. Porticello and Fil Dor become to the final. Vauban makes his move every bit he goes to the last and misses information technology, but to recover his pace, beating Fil Dor and Pied Piper. Vauban, ridden by Paul Townend, trained past Willie Mullins, has quite the engine and won with enough in hand.
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1.30 Triumph Hurdle preview
The Triumph Hurdle is a much classier race now that the Fred Winter has arrived as an alternative attraction for the juveniles. Whether information technology is a amend race is a matter of opinion, as there was something about the sight of 28 hurdlers careering effectually the New class at the top of the Gold Cup card which made finding the winner a particular pleasure. Anyway, those days are gone, just there have still been a few double-figure winners in recent years and while the ones at the elevation of the marketplace have all put up solid trials, a horse like Il Etait Temps, who was pitched directly into Grade I company for his hurdling debut at the Dublin Racing Festival, could hands improve past them. He was just 6 lengths backside Vauban, today'southward favourite, there, although Paul Townend has opted for Vauban and that must count for something. Pied Piper, who was sent over to Cheltenham by Gordon Elliott for the Triumph Trial over form and distance in Jan, is besides a alive contender and his form there was backed up past a good time, fifty-fifty though he crossed the line on a tight rein. At the prices, though, I'll take a adventure on the leading British juvenile, Knight Salute, who has washed nothing merely improve since being switched to hurdling from the Flat this season. He remains unbeaten subsequently 5 starts, put up his all-time operation nonetheless to win the Adonis at Kempton in a strong time and has peradventure been slightly overlooked in the marketplace as Milton Harris, his trainer, is inappreciably a household proper name.
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Here'south the leading trainers' standings (1st, 2d, third)
- Willie Mullins IRE 5 2 7
- Gordon Elliott IRE 2 6 i
- Nicky Henderson ii iv 1
- Venetia Williams 2 1 2
- Henry de Bromhead IRE 2 - ii
- Gavin Cromwell IRE 1 one 1
- Lucinda Russell 1 1 -
- Harry Fry 1 - -
- Alan King one - -
- Hughie Morrison 1 - -
- Ben Pauling 1 - -
- Padraig Roche IRE 1 - -
- Evan Williams 1 - -
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And practiced morning from the bunker where I am taking over later on Niall's two excellent days in the saddle. I take barely dried upward since attending Champion Chase day (see photo) and existence able to run across only a couple of races because of the pelting and all the umbrellas in the way. It was brutal, it was attritional, it was adept to be back.
It's been a corking three days' racing with yesterday no exception with that Stayers' Hurdle win for Flooring Porter, and the brilliance of Allaho in the Ryanair Chase. Perhaps though Thursday volition exist best recalled for Galopin Des Champs's fall in the novice chase at the showtime of the twenty-four hour period. He'll be dorsum, hopefully, and peradventure in next year's Gold Cup. This year'due south looks a highly open race, with defending champion Minella Indo standing his ground, A Plus Tard trying to go one improve than last year, Al Boum Photo trying to win a 3rd Golden Loving cup. and Galvin carrying the hopes of many a shrewdie from Republic of ireland. There's likewise a classic Venetia Williams plot in Royale Pagaille, who ran in last year's race as a novice and suffered some poor luck in running.
And before and after that, also, more top-level National Hunt racing, and hither to guide you through them.
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Preamble
Skillful morning from Cheltenham, where the sun is starting to break through subsequently a misty start to the day and the class looks magnificent ahead of one of the slap-up days in this, or any other, sport. It is like racing's final round at Augusta National, the culmination of a week that has been circled on many fans' calendars since they fell through their front door after the last one, and the Aureate Cup (3.30pm) itself looks sure to be the perfect centrepiece for the terminal-day card.
Jon Pullin, the clerk of the form reported this morn that the going has improved to good-to-soft, soft in places, which is but about perfect jump racing basis but could mean that Galvin's bottomless stamina is not quite as significant as it might take been. "We had a dry day yesterday and so the ground's dried up a bit," Pullin said. "We've got a dry day ahead with vivid sunshine and temperatures around xiv or 15C."
Galvin was the narrow favourite for the Gold Cup yesterday evening but as expected, the money has started to make it for Rachael Blackmore's mountain, A Plus Tard, and he now heads the market at eleven-iv with Galvin, a proven stayer who won the three-and-three-quarter mile National Hunt Chase here concluding season, out to 4-ane and Minella Indo - last year's Gold Loving cup winner and the horse that Blackmore rejected – on offering at around six-1.
That'southward the pick of the prices for me, given Minella Indo'due south exceptional tape at this track, with two Festival wins already, and I'm willing to overlook his patchy tape since last yr'due south victory every bit his win 12 months agone remains the best piece of form on offer and he seems to come alive in the jump. Protektorat is the shortest-priced runner from a British yard and a win for Dan Skelton's runner would round off a much improve week than anticipated for the home squad.
The menu is under fashion at one.30pm with the Triumph Hurdle, while Paul Townend goes into the final afternoon with a i-win lead in the race to exist leading passenger. He has three winners this week, while Blackmore, Nico de Boinville and Patrick Mullins all accept two.
Willie Mullins, meanwhile, looks abode and hosed in the trainers' race with 5 wins, iii more than than Gordon Elliott, Nicky Henderson, Henry de Bromhead and Venetia Williams, but Elliott in particular has several well-fancied runners today and could yet make a race of information technology should either Pied Piper or Fil Dor land the opener.
The last of the mist has simply left the top of Cleeve Loma, and a wonderful afternoon of racing awaits. Good luck to all!
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2022/mar/18/cheltenham-festival-2022-gold-cup-day-live
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