HORSES FOR COURSES
CHELTENHAM form is the best guide. Some horses come back year after year and run well. Here are the runners with good records at the Festival... n 1.30 SUPREME NOVICES’ HURDLE DEBUCHET (2nd, 2017 Champion Bumper), CLAIMANTAKINFORGAN (3rd, 2017 Champion Bumper), WESTERN RYDER (5th, 2017 Champion Bumper. n 2.10 RACING POST ARKLE FOOTPAD (4th, 2017 Champion Hurdle; 3rd, 2016 Triumph Hurdle), PETITE MOUCHOIR (3rd, 2017 Champion Hurdle) n 2.50 ULTIMA HANDICAP CHASE
COO STAR SIVOLA (3rd, 2017 Fred Winter Novices’ Handicap Hurdle, 4th, 2016 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle). n 3.30 CHAMPION HURDLE
BUVEUR D’AIR (1st, 2017 Champion Hurdle; 3rd, 2016 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle), FAUGHEEN (1st,
2015 Champion Hurdle; 1st, 2014 Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle) MELON (2nd, 2017 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle), MY TENT OR YOURS (2nd, 2014, 2016, 2017 Champion Hurdle; 2nd, 2013 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle), WICKLOW BRAVE (1st, 2015 County Hurdle), YORKHILL (1st, 2016 1st Ballymore Novices Hurdle; 2017 JLT Novices’ Chase) n 4.10 OLGB MARES’ HURDLE APPLE’S JADE (1st, 2017 OLBG Mares’ Hurdle; 2nd, 2016 Triumph Hurdle) n 4.50 NATIONAL HUNT CHASE JURY DUTY (3rd, 2017 Pertemps
Hurdle Final), RATHVINDEN (3rd, 2014 Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle) n 5.30 CLOSE BROTHERS NOVICES’ HANDICAP CHASE
BARNEY DWAN (2nd, 2017 Pertemps Hurdle Final), IBIS DU RHEU (1st, 2016 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle)