- Storm Gareth has not prevented day two going ahead
- Altior hot favourite for the Champion Chase
One of the great joys of the Festival is spotting the losers, unlucky or otherwise, who will be picking up prizes in the coming weeks. Give Me A Copper was strongly fancied for the Ultima Handicap Chase on Tuesday and was trainer Paul Nicholls’ best bet at a Betfair preview night I went to at the Emirates. The horse fell yesterday but his trainer is now eyeing up the Scottish Grand National and the gelding is definitely one for the short-list for that race.
Give me a Copper is fine this morning after his tumble . Aim for Scottish GN on better ground .
Congratulations to 24skidoo, who had four winners on day one, viz: Duc De Genievres (5-1), Beware The Bear (10-1), A Plus Tard (5-1) and Le Breuil (14-1) for a final score of +31. That was just enough to hold off Gourin56, whose three winners got him to +30. 24skidoo, we’ll be in touch by email to arrange your prize.
You could win a £100 account credit from Betfair by proving your tipping prowess on today’s races. All you have to do is give us your selections for all of today’s races at Cheltenham. As ever, our champion will be the tipster who returns the best profit to notional stakes of £1 at starting price on each tip. Non-runners count as losers.
Please post all your tips in a single posting, using the comment facility below, before the first race at 1.30pm. There are seven races at Cheltenham today and you must post a single selection for each race. Our usual terms and conditions, which you can read here, will apply, except that this will be a strictly one-day thing. If we get a tie after all the races have been run, the winner will be the one who posted their tips earliest out of those with the highest score. If an entrant has to repost their selections because of a non-runner, we will use the time of their later posting for tiebreak purposes.
If you don’t win today, don’t despair. We are running an identical competition on each day of the Festival.
Written by Tony Paley and Barry Glendenning
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2019/mar/13/cheltenham-festival-2019-day-two-live-horse-racing under the title “Cheltenham Festival 2019: day two gets go-ahead after inspection – live!”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
