With just over a couple of weeks until the action gets under way, the Cheltenham Festival is now very much to the forefront of the minds of most racing fans.
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Whether you are a National Hunt form student or just a recreational gambler, who likes a flutter at the feature meetings, the Weatherbys Cheltenham Festival Betting Guide – which was published on Friday 21st February – is the perfect tool to assist you in finding winners.
As well as in-depth analysis and trends for all 28 races, the Guide includes details of the leading contenders for the Grade 1 contests, whilst lead author Paul Ferguson – known for his annual Jumpers To Follow publication – provides a dozen Spring Horses To Follow and highlights the horses who have most impressed him in the bumper division. There is plenty of additional editorial content, too, with Sporting Life’s Ben Linfoot and Matt Brocklebank amongst the contributors, and they are joined by highly-respected racing journalists, Rory Delargy and Donn McClean.
To give you a taster of what you can expect, here is a link to a FREE 10-page Mini Guide which the team at Weatherbys have pulled together.
The full version contains no less than 272 pages and even once the Cheltenham Festival is over, there is plenty to sink your teeth into, with Aintree’s Grand National meeting also covered in great detail.
Last year’s trends might well have pointed readers towards Gold Cup winner Al Boum Photo, who enhanced the fine recent record of second-season chasers, who were having their first run in the race. That trend alone could lean readers towards the likes of Delta Work and Santini – both placed in last year’s RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase – this time around.
As for the feature on day one, the Unibet Champion Hurdle, a couple of key trends would suggest that Pentland Hills – currently third in the market behind stablemate Epatante and Benie des Dieux (unlikely runner at this stage) – faces a tall order in a fortnight’s time. 25 of the past 30 winners had won last-time-out (he has been beaten on both starts this season), whilst last year’s winner, the ill-fated Espoir d’Allen, became just the second five-year-old winner of the race in the past 33 years.
During this time, 102 five-year-olds have taken their chance, so statistically speaking, last year’s Triumph Hurdle winner looks up against it. This also highlights that several of the trends for each race are geared towards putting a negative spin on things, which can be of equal importance as those positive trends/patterns.
This year’s Cheltenham Festival Betting Guide can be ordered direct from the Bettrends shop and like last year, is also available in digital format.