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The Cheltenham Festival 2025

Very good. I particularly liked Nick Luck.

Anyway, to change tack...

I see the Tuesday entries are at the RP site but I don't think they are the 5-days. They're the same as published in the Weekender which would have gone to press yesterday.
 
Tanlic said:
She's 8 from 9 her one defeat came at Cheltenham in the Mares Novice when she was beat fair and square with no sign of her cocking her jaw.
Her recent win in the Hotel Hurdle could just have been one of those flukes never to be repeated again.
I am not convinced by her as a superstar cocked jaw or no cocked jaw. The Champion Hurdle is about whether Constitution Hill is as good as he was or not...Not about her.
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She was beaten because they crawled around and She was done for a turn of foot and She was giving 5lbs to a very good mare. Her last run didn't come out of nowhere, her last 4 runs have all seen her get a new career high RPR. she is clearly a mare on the upgrade.
 
Alex said:
Thanks, would I be right in thinking if you have not confirmed a horse for a race on Tuesday now, the horse cannot run on Tuesday ?
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Correct. Not sure if you can supplement a horse after today's stage and it would make connections look very silly indeed to take one out today and supplement it back in at a substantial cost at the 48h (ie final) stage.
 
Desert Orchid said:
Correct. Not sure if you can supplement a horse after today's stage and it would make connections look very silly indeed to take one out today and supplement it back in at a substantial cost at the 48h (ie final) stage.
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Cheers, it makes more sense to me now. The difference between confirmed and declared.
 
Desert Orchid said:
Correct. Not sure if you can supplement a horse after today's stage and it would make connections look very silly indeed to take one out today and supplement it back in at a substantial cost at the 48h (ie final) stage.
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I think that supplementing a horse can only be done at the six day entry stage. Looking at racingpost.com/racecards/11/cheltenham/2025-03-12/at-a-glance, and at the Queen Mother Champion Chase in particular, tomorrow ( March 6th ) is designated as the confirm/supplement day. There are unlikely to be any supplementary entries for this race anyway.

The fee for supplementing Joyeuse for the Mares' Hurdle was £4,800 which is conveniently 4% of the total race value of £120,000. That's peanuts for her connections. I haven't been able to find out if this is the standard calculation for all supplementary entries, but there was a hint elsewhere that the fee for the Derby would be £75,000 on a race value of £1.5m.
 
The 48h decs at the RP site will also include the UK ORs for the Irish runners. They're not there at the 6-day dec stage today in the non-handicaps. (Obviously they need to be there for the handicaps.)

However, if you want an idea about what those that don't have a rating will be this link will take you to the Irish ratings and from there you can tweak them to something close to what they will ultimately be over here.

Those at 150 and above are likely to be the same as the handicappers usually agree these together. Kopeck Des Bordes, for example, is likely to be on 157 here too.

140-149 are likely to up two or three pounds.

120-139 are likely to go up around 6lbs.

Below 120 could go up more than that.

Good luck.
 
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