Festival Previews

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I'll be at the London Racing Club's Preview on Friday night so hopefully someone will put up a few 33/1 certs ;)

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Jonathan Mullin and Limerick leader sport tweeting from Dunraven Arms

Panel N Henderson, T Segal, Andy Mac, H Fry, N Luck, David Minton and Willie Power...

Going

Simon Claisse live from Chel: almost changed Gd to soft, soft in places but tipping down rain so left it alone.

Says Claisse: Watering unlikely but forecast good, temperature rise from Wed next week, up to 15 degrees...

Claisse; tempted to change to Gd to soft today but rain came as promised and left at Soft

Supreme

N Henderson: Vaniteux's work this morning has put him in the Supreme team. Barry G will decide later this week what he rides

Segal: I like Gilgamboa for the Supreme. (JP McManus is on nearby table and we'll hear from him later...)

JP has a preference for the supreme regarding Gilgamboa #dunravencheltpreview

Arkle

Harry Fry: AP McCoy very complimentary to N Fehily re Rock On Ruby after pulling up at Doncaster

Nicky Henderson: needs good ground for Grandouet who, he admits, didn't work well at Kempton on Friday

( My note : read earlier Tinkler said if Grandouet was in a jumpers bumper he would have fallen).

Champion Hurdle

Nicky: of all my champion hurdle winners (five I think), My Tent the fastest. Our Conor one to beat:"what we saw in Triumph was spectacular"

JP very happy with MTOY for CH, in handicaps Regal encore has a big shout

Champion Chase

Nicky Henderson relaying the various tinkering that's gone on with captain conan re: QM. Seems hopeful

Andy Mac says Jamie Moore told him Sire De Grugy 'fackin ates' Cheltenham. #dunravencheltpreview #gold

Fry weighs in on Annie power side but says he'd go to CH #dunravencheltpreview

Ryanair

Pricewise all over dynaste for the Ryanair. Andy Mac agrees as do Harry Fry and David Minton. Henderson also #dunravencheltpreview

Segal: Dynaste's Haydock runs entitled him to win Ryanair. "That was the best chase run this season - trip fine, but has to settle"

Nicky: Radjani Express + Hunt Ball could run in Ryanair. "It's a very winnable Ryanair, not a great one." Minton says Dynaste "a good thing"

JLT

Now for JLT: hendo talking up Oscar Whiskey on good ground. Fry circumspect about Vukovar but seems quietly confident #dunravencheltpreview

Nicky: 2m4f around Chel is exactly what Oscar Whisky wants and he finally has it this year. "On good ground he is one of our best chances."

World Hurdle

Segal: Big Buck's the worst value of the festival by far. Hard comeback race on terrible ground, 11yo + now running in toughest World Hurdle

David Minton: slightly surprised that AP didn't choose More Of That

World hurdle: Annie Power's prospect of settling the major talking point. Andy Mac says he'd rather ride Big Buck's

Hendo makes point that ruby Walsh knows he can beat big buck's and that's why they're going WH with Annie Power. #dunravencheltpreview

Harry Fry: if I had the pick of any Chel entry to add to my team it would be Annie Power

JP Mcmanus says he'd have stuck Annie power in the mares hurdle, has nothing else for it obviously

Triumph

David Minton: I'm told that Gitane De Berlais and Abyssial are Willie Mullins' two runners in Triumph, and Gitane goes with big ew shout


Bumper

Andy Mac: I think Robbie (McNamara) rides Silver Concorde but I get the impression he's prefer to be on Vigil!

Handicaps

Richard Johnson on phone link to Dunraven: Fingal Bay my best chance of Chel winner. Grade 1 winner and will come on for last run

Dickie: Cheltenian a County hope rather than supreme. "Two of my best chances are in handicaps which is worrying!"

JP McManus: of his handicappers Regal Encore "could be too well handicapped and might not get a run"


Naps
Willie Power: Our Conor:
Pricewise : Morning Assembly
Nick Henderson : Our Conor
Harry Fry, Annie power
David Minton Kings palace;
Andy Mac, Faugheen;
Nick Luck Last instalment
 
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Panel

Kevin Blake,
Kevin O'Ryan,
Patrick Mullins,
Richie McLernon
Bryan Cooper with the hints and tips.
Trainers John McConnell
and Tony Mullins

Novice Hurdles
Pat Mullins quashes Vautour rumours and is pretty confident. Bigs up his other two diplomatically
All Mullins novice hurdlers top drawer says Pat. No chance he'd say one of them is a dog I suppose. Keenest on briar hill

Cooper keener on Wicklow Brave for the supreme. Hopeful for lieutenant colonel in Neptune. Apache jack e/w in AB

Richie reckons Irving will win supreme, few good English horses about. Likes the Pipe pair in AB and Neptune

Blake reckons Irish will take supreme, Wicklow Brave maybe. Faugheen in the Neptune and briar hill. Mullins all the way

McConnell goes Irving, Faugheen and Briar Hill

Tony Mullins goes Irving Red Sherlock and Briar Hill for the novice hurdles

Cooper in spotlight over tiger roll and guitar Pete in the triumph. More improvement from former he reckons.

Tony Mullins says the triumph is shite this year, go have a cup of tea. It's always a balls of a horse that wins it

Novice Chases

Trifolium for Cooper, can't have Dodging Bullets fears Champagne Fever. Likes ballycasey in rsa

Mullins cool on champagne fever, very positive about Felix younger on good and ballycasey

Taquin De Seuil could go rsa says McLernon. Interesting. ..

Blake goes ROR for arkle; not a hope says Mullins. The Fly broke him last year

Blake says Felix younger for jlt - very strong on him. Ballycasey for rsa

Tony Mullins goes champagne fever, Felix younger and morning assembly

World Hurdle

Quevega not in Annie Power league. Go WH, there's nothing else in it says Tony Mullins.
Tony gives sam twiston-davies loads. He's a fool. Might have ruined big bucks with last run.

Patrick Mullins leaning strongly towards WH for Annie Power. Still noncommittal. Well schooled by the old man
Poker faces from certain interested parties on the panel regarding world hurdle. Typical


Champion Hurdle

Patrick Mullins very strong on Hurricane Fly for CH. In other news Friday follows Thursday. Says topspeed a load of bollox
Pat throws in a few provisos re: the fly, but yeah, he's going to win it
Cooper reckons our conor will be v close. Not much love for The New One. Sam TD or STD, if you like, getting more slagging
A fall or foot and mouth the only things that'll stop the fly says Tony.

Queen Mother/Ryanair

Blake likes captain conan for this. Good vibes for that one from panel. First lieutenant for Ryanair.
Whole panel seems to want to move on from QM and Ryanair. Very much blah blah whatever. Anyone fancy a pint?

Gold Cup
Gold Cup: no one veering from bobs worth, last instalment, silviniaco conti Tony keen on latter but can't pronounce him

Bumper
Patrick keeping cards close to chest on bumper. Goes with black hercules under duress.
Balnaslow gets positive mention.

Others

Blue hell each way for the Fred winter if it gets in says Tony.

Arctic hero in county hurdle says Cooper. If in doubt says McLernon and goodwood mirage in Fred winter

Blake goes for Arctic fire as a dark horse probably in the county

John McConnell keen on his own one in the fred winter and regal encore in the Martin pipe. Also likes pendra in nov chase


Charity bets:
Blake: Arctic fire
Tony: Felix younger
Cooper: ted veale;
patrick: briar hill;
richie: activial
Kevin O'ryan and John McConnell both go for Pendra.
 
am i reading that right DG.. Henderson put up Oor Connor for his bet of the festival? They must have started on the Hendricks early.
 
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Panel

PFNicholls
Tom Scudamore
Charlie Morelock
Andrew Smith

Willie Mullins on phone

Willie Mullins suggests annie power going to the World Hurdle largely due to the fact that that way Ruby could ride her. Nichols suggests...
Annie power is taken to Aintree instead!
Willie Mullins charity bets. Hurricane fly (win) Smashing (each way) Sure Reef (each way)

Supreme
Nichols hopes to see Irving as a leading fancy for the Champion Hurdle next year.

Arkle

Hinterland likely to run in champion chase

Champion Hurdle
Paul Nichols hopeful of a big run from Ptit Zig and has been surprised by how good its worked. He suggest melodic rendezvous not pacey enough
Melodic rendezvous stable team suggest they do not want it bottomless and will destroy Ptit Zig and the 4 pounds is neither here nor there
Tom Scudamore puts up the New One
Andy Smith suggest Our Conor should be fav for the Champion hurdle

Festival Handicap Chase
Hadrians Approach has been put up with the larger fields being a problem. "Has a chance but no more than that"

Neptune
Tom Scudamore on Red Sherlock.describes him "Top class" although "ground is an unknown"
If Lac Fontana is to run at Cheltenham it will be in the County Hurdle. Nichols suggests he will not have a runner in the race
Andy Smith Rathvinden strongly fancied for the Neptune and will not be 14/1 on the day.

RSA
Owners don't want to run Just A Par in 4miler so heads to the RSA or Aintree. Black Thunder Nicholls' only possible for 4miler.
Sam Winner has an each way chance in the RSA. : PN
Smad Place the buzzer from Tom Scu


Champion Chase
CM: All the tests very negative regarding Sprinter Sacre, a horse "going through the motions" rather than training with zest
Ignore Captain Conan at your peril. CM
Tom Scudamore put up Wishful Thinking for the Queen Mother at 33/1. Andy Smith can smell a result in this race too!
Sire cologne stays forever and jumps well PN.

Whispers of a McManus horse to win the cross country.

Coral Cup

Paul Nicholls very keen on Far West for the Coral Cup. Irish Saint will NOT run in the race
Tom Scudamore doesn't think Un Temps Pour Tout is as good as Red Sherlock. Hopes therefore he goes to the Coral Cup but no decision yet.
Henderson yard looking to claim weight on Whisper in the Coral Cup despite no trouble carrying weight at home. Big run expected. CM

Fred Winter


Dawalan is apparently an exceptional workhorse. Some indication of why he's so short for the Fred Winter then.

Daryl Jacobs says whatever is run in the Fred Winter he wants to be on Katgary who is being run for the first time in the UK.
 
JLT

CM: Oscar Whiskey.. Not lived up to expectations but coming into himself now. Cheltenham form. Not suited by heavy. Worked well at kempton

Sizing Gold tipped up! Doubt aired by tom scu regarding oscar whiskey. Says he prefers wonderful charm which Andy Smith agrees with

The panel see Wonderful Charm as a 3/1 chance
 
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Panel

Kevin Blake,
Kevin O'Ryan,
Patrick Mullins,
Richie McLernon
Bryan Cooper with the hints and tips.
Trainers John McConnell
and Tony Mullins

Novice Hurdles
Pat Mullins quashes Vautour rumours and is pretty confident. Bigs up his other two diplomatically
All Mullins novice hurdlers top drawer says Pat. No chance he'd say one of them is a dog I suppose. Keenest on briar hill

Cooper keener on Wicklow Brave for the supreme. Hopeful for lieutenant colonel in Neptune. Apache jack e/w in AB

Richie reckons Irving will win supreme, few good English horses about. Likes the Pipe pair in AB and Neptune

Blake reckons Irish will take supreme, Wicklow Brave maybe. Faugheen in the Neptune and briar hill. Mullins all the way

McConnell goes Irving, Faugheen and Briar Hill

Tony Mullins goes Irving Red Sherlock and Briar Hill for the novice hurdles

Cooper in spotlight over tiger roll and guitar Pete in the triumph. More improvement from former he reckons.

Tony Mullins says the triumph is shite this year, go have a cup of tea. It's always a balls of a horse that wins it

Novice Chases

Trifolium for Cooper, can't have Dodging Bullets fears Champagne Fever. Likes ballycasey in rsa

Mullins cool on champagne fever, very positive about Felix younger on good and ballycasey

Taquin De Seuil could go rsa says McLernon. Interesting. ..

Blake goes ROR for arkle; not a hope says Mullins. The Fly broke him last year

Blake says Felix younger for jlt - very strong on him. Ballycasey for rsa

Tony Mullins goes champagne fever, Felix younger and morning assembly

World Hurdle

Quevega not in Annie Power league. Go WH, there's nothing else in it says Tony Mullins.
Tony gives sam twiston-davies loads. He's a fool. Might have ruined big bucks with last run.

Patrick Mullins leaning strongly towards WH for Annie Power. Still noncommittal. Well schooled by the old man
Poker faces from certain interested parties on the panel regarding world hurdle. Typical


Champion Hurdle

Patrick Mullins very strong on Hurricane Fly for CH. In other news Friday follows Thursday. Says topspeed a load of bollox
Pat throws in a few provisos re: the fly, but yeah, he's going to win it
Cooper reckons our conor will be v close. Not much love for The New One. Sam TD or STD, if you like, getting more slagging
A fall or foot and mouth the only things that'll stop the fly says Tony.

Queen Mother/Ryanair

Blake likes captain conan for this. Good vibes for that one from panel. First lieutenant for Ryanair.
Whole panel seems to want to move on from QM and Ryanair. Very much blah blah whatever. Anyone fancy a pint?

Gold Cup
Gold Cup: no one veering from bobs worth, last instalment, silviniaco conti Tony keen on latter but can't pronounce him

Bumper
Patrick keeping cards close to chest on bumper. Goes with black hercules under duress.
Balnaslow gets positive mention.

Others

Blue hell each way for the Fred winter if it gets in says Tony.

Arctic hero in county hurdle says Cooper. If in doubt says McLernon and goodwood mirage in Fred winter

Blake goes for Arctic fire as a dark horse probably in the county

John McConnell keen on his own one in the fred winter and regal encore in the Martin pipe. Also likes pendra in nov chase


Charity bets:
Blake: Arctic fire
Tony: Felix younger
Cooper: ted veale;
patrick: briar hill;
richie: activial
Kevin O'ryan and John McConnell both go for Pendra.
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Great report DG, I was at that preview and really enjoyed it:)
 
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Ryanair

Al Ferof doesn't stay the 3 miles. Dynaste and Al Ferof have similar breeding and ability. The market correct. #ryanairchase : Paul Nichols

Beneficent sets the standard in the Ryanair say Tom Scudamore

Hendersons yard suggest Riverside Theatre is to be the only runner they have in the Ryanair
14/1 module looks big. : Andy smith

World Hurdle

Big bucks.. Will run well again and still can contest at highest level. Ran as well as expected first time out despite defeat. PN

Paul Nichols hints towards seeing At Fishers Cross as a big danger although he is very happy with Big Bucks leading up to Cheltenham

Celestial Halo, "not getting any younger". Zarkandar "thrilled with the work" PN puts up Salubrious at a big price! Get on now..

Big Bucks a truly great horse. Having said that disappointed with last run and the horse we KNEW would have won last time out. Tom Scu

TS Zarkander over priced.

Andy Smith could not be anymore adamant that Big Bucks is nothing but a lay at 2/1 and is on Annie Power and Zarkandar.

Handicaps etc

There's no panic to go to Sandown over the Kim Muir

Ballynagour has been primed for the Byrne Group Plate. Tom scu
Bury parade definitely doesn't run (in plate?)
Henderson is likely to run Cash And Go, Lyvius & Lough Kent in the County. Lough Kent works v well & they rate it highly despite Ascot flop Snake eyes "might" go to county h'cap hurdle CM
Virak may as well start now and he will not win the Martin Pipe due to handicap mark. PN
Mr mole needs a fast run race and is 5lb lower over fences than hurdles. Good record for novices and hold up horses strong chances PN
GA Next Sensation had an outstanding chance and is still well in. Tom scu
@jpnorris 16m Volnay De Thaix might well run in the Conditional Jockeys' race. Certainly one I'll be keen on if he does go, Irving & Splash Of Ginge form.


Charity bets

Tom Scudamore Win kings palace Each way wishful thinking
Paul Nichols Win silviano conti Each way Caid du berlais
An interesting one from John Powell Win champagne fever Each way Astra Del acore
 
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