If anyone can tip up the winner of the Cheltenham bumper I will take my hat off to them but its arguably the hardest race of the festival to get right.
As Cue Card showed a couple of years ago - oh hold on.
Interesting to see if Mags Mullins sends her very very impressive Bumper winner The Westener Boy to the race - the most impressive such winner of the season so far for me
I always said you needed your eyes testingTo my eye The Papparazzi Kid was at least as impressive
I always said you needed your eyes testing
Could be Cue Card mark II.I've backed Vrai Vert in this at 33/1. His price is far too big.
Could be Cue Card mark II.
Nicholls?
Cue Card was the price it was because it was Tizzard!
Indeed. Even more of a bonus that a Nicholls horse is 33s.
Available at 50s, on Betfair, Harry. Might have another bet.
Just put small bets on at 69/1 and 54/1. What makes you think he'll be bigger on the day?
The form of Fenton's yoke looks better and better. Would be tempted to have a poke at it if I knew he was going to run. Anyone hear anything? Venture Capital is the name of the beast.
Certainly a race I leave well alone, unless you are privy to some inside info. Too little form to work on, and all of it unreliable. Impossible to make head nor tail of it.
You could say much the same about most flat races. The trick is to forget the hype and look at what horses have produced on the track with a cold eye.
Even the 40/1 outsider Cue Card had won very nicely on his debut, but because it was for an unfashionable trainer at an unfashionable venue, and he was the wrong age, he wasn't fancied. But phrases like "quickened well" and "came right away" don't appear in reports about your average bumper winner and we should have known he was in with a chance.
Some of you are keen on Vrai Vert, who was an "easy", "wide margin" winner at Hereford three days before Christmas on a soft surface. I have the impression that in testing conditions the ground at Hereford becomes very holding, and a lot of horses win by already getting away from (usually moderate) rivals who cannot handle the conditions before entering the straight and coming home on their own. I suspect that winning distances are higher than average there.