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Horse racing predictions: Friday’s Cheltenham each-way tips
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We move into the final day at the Cheltenham Festival on Friday with the biggest race of the week, and indeed the year, up for grabs when the tapes rise for the Gold Cup.
Alongside the blue-riband event at 3.30pm, there are two other Grade 1 races – the Triumph Hurdle (1.30) and the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle (2.50) as well as four more fantastic Festival races, with the curtain coming down after the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle at 5.30.
Ahead of the final afternoon at Cheltenham, we’ve picked out some each-way contenders at decent prices that are worthy of consideration.
Cheltenham each-way racing tips – Friday March 15
- 2.10 County Hurdle – Hansard @ 20/1 with Betfred
- 2.50 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle – Chigorin @ 22/1 with Betfred
- 3.30 Cheltenham Gold Cup – Gentlemansgame @ 20/1 with Betfred
- 4.50 Mares’ Chase – Riviere D’etel @ 20/1 with Betfred
Odds, correct at the time of publishing, are subject to change.
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Hansard can record County success
Gary Moore knows how to get his horses Festival-ready and he teams up with the Noel Fehily Racing Club as HANSARD goes for glory in the County Hurdle.
These colours haven’t been around long but they are already Festival winners with Love Envoi and this six-year-old may not be done improving yet.
Last April, he was fourth behind Inthepocket in a Grade 1 novice hurdle at Aintree over an extended two miles and he started this season chasing home Rubaud in the Grade 2 Elite Hurdle at Wincanton.
On his next start in December he won the Gerry Feilden Handicap Hurdle at Newbury (2m, good to soft) and he quickly followed that by finishing third behind Luccia – who was third in the Champion Hurdle on Tuesday – in the Betfair Exchange Trophy at Ascot under top weight from this mark of 142.
He can be keen, so the likely fast pace could spark further improvement, and his record after a break is another positive factor.
Selection: Hansard @ 20/1 with Betfred
Chigorin worth watching
The Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle is an attritional Grade 1 race over three miles and digging deep is a prerequisite for any horse aiming to go close.
That is exactly what CHIGORIN had to do in December on a properly testing surface at Fairyhouse (2m 7½f, heavy), when opening his hurdles account at the second time of asking for trainer Henry de Bromhead and jockey Rachael Blackmore.
This thorough test of stamina should suit him well and this is a race his trainer-jockey pairing won in 2019 with Minella Indo, then an unheralded six-year-old. There are some horses with big reputations in this race, but the Albert Bartlett has a habit of shattering those and, with the stable in strong form, Chigorin is worth chancing at a decent price.
Selection: Chigorin @ 22/1 with Betfred
Gentlemansgame ready for Gold Cup
No horse in the Gold Cup field has more scope for improvement than GENTLEMANSGAME for trainer Mouse Morris, who famously saddled War Of Attrition to win this race in 2006.
This eight-year-old was second to Galopin Des Champs in a Grade 1 novice hurdle at Punchestown in April 2021 and has won two of his three starts since going chasing.
In December 2022, he was an easy winner of a Leopardstown beginners’ event (2m 5f, soft), after which he missed 276 days before returning last September to chase home Easy Game in a Grade 2 contest at Gowran Park (2m 4f, heavy).
In November, he beat Bravemansgame in the Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby (3m, soft to heavy), helped by the latter’s poor leap at the last, but he has been off since and is completely unexposed as a staying chaser. There should be plenty more in his locker and he’s far from the worst outsider.
Selection: Gentlemansgame @ 20/1 with Betfred
Riviere D’Etel can topple Mullins mares
The Mares’ Chase is the newest race on the Festival programme and, so far, has been a bit of a Willie Mullins benefit gig, with two wins via Colreevy and Elimay before Allegorie De Vassy was second last year to the unbeaten Colm Murphy chaser Impervious.
Allegorie De Vassy is back again and could go one better, while stablemate Dinoblue is favourite and a Grade 1 winner in Ireland this season, but has a small query over her stamina at this 2m 4½f trip.
It’s enough to look for an each-way alternative in an 11-runner contest where the four British-based contenders are hard to have a lot of faith in.
RIVIERE D’ETEL has a tendency to jump to the right but she was still travelling well within herself going to the third last in this race a year ago when colliding in mid-air with Zambella and falling.
She has finished second to Wednesday’s Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Captain Guinness this season and beat a misfiring Allegorie De Vassy at Fairyhouse on New Year’s Day. Her second to the same rival at Naas next time out was over the much shorter trip of two miles.
A good second last time out to 159-rated Saint Sam over 2m 4f on heavy going at Gowran Park, she rates an interesting outsider for Gordon Elliott and Jack Kennedy.
Selection: Riviere D’etel @ 20/1 with Betfred
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