Ruby Walsh, Paddy Power himself and Patrick Kennelly preview the action from Cheltenham in the Paddy Power Media’s podcast ‘From The Horse’s Mouth’.
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Here are Ruby’s tips and his thoughts on the feature Champion Hurdle:
1.20 Sky Bet Supreme Novices Hurdle Appreciate It, Blue Lord each-way
1.55 Sporting Life Arkle Chase Shishkin
2.30 Ultima Handicap Chase Happygolucky
3.05 Champion Hurdle Honeysuckle
“Yeah 10 runners – really good race and it has everything. You have Goshen, Silver Streak, Aspire Tower and Not So Sleepy – four horses who like to front run so they’re guaranteed a good gallop. If a couple let them sit just behind that being probably Saldier, James Du Berlais and Honeysuckle.
"And you have a couple that’ll drop in Abacadabras, Sharjah, Epatante sorry will be in the second row as well, so like the race has great shape, it has plenty of high-class horses but I just think with the rain that’s fallen, slowing the ground a little bit, it’s going to suit Goshen, but I think that it also helps Honeysuckle and I just think she’s a better mare than she was last year – I really fancy her."
3.40 Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle No bet
4.15 Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle Saint Sam each-way
4.50 Sam Vestey National Hunt Novices Chase Next Destination
Nap: Next Destination
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