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:
1.30 TRIUMPH HURDLE No qualifiers.
2.10 COUNTY H’CAP HURDLE BRELADE (6th 2017 Ballymore Nov Hdle). DIVIN BERE (2nd 2017 Fred Winter H’cap Hdle). FLYING TIGER (1st 2017 Fred Winter). IVANOVICH GORBATOV (6th in this race 2017, 1st 2016 Triumph). MOON RACER (1st 2015 Champion Bump). STERNRUBIN (3rd in this race 2016).
2.50 ALBERT BARTLETT NOV HDLE No qualifiers.
3.30 GOLD CUP DJAKADAM (4th 2017, 2nd 2015 in this race). DOUBLE SHUFFLE (3rd 2016 Close Bros H’cap) KILLULTAGH VIC (1st 2015 Martin Pipe H’cap, 6th 2014 Champion Bump). MIGHT BITE (1st 2017 RSA Chse). MINELLA ROCCO (2nd 2017 this race, 1st 2016 NH Chse). NATIVE RIVER (2nd 2016 NH Chse). ROAD TO RESPECT (1st 2017 Stable Plate H’cap). SAPHIR DU RHEU (5th 2017 this race, 6th 2016 Stayers’ Hdle, 2nd 2015 Stayers’ Hdle). SHANTOU FLYER (2nd 2018 Ultima H’cap).
4.10 ST. JAMES’S PLACE FOXHUNTER’S BALNASLOW (5th 2017 in this race, 4th 2014 Fulke Walwyn H’cap). BAREL OF LAUGHS (3rd 2017 in this race). GRAND VISION (4th 2015 Fulke Walwyn H’cap). MINELLA FOR VALUE (6th 2017 in this race). ON THE FRINGE (4th 2017, 1st 2016, 1st 2015, 1st 2014, 4th 2011 in this race). UNIONISTE (4th 2013 RSA Chase). VIRAK (6th 2014 Martin Pipe H’cap). VOLNAY DE THAIX (5th 2015 Coral Cup). WONDERFUL CHARM (2nd 2017 Foxhunters, 5th 2014 JLT Nov Chse).
4.50 MARTIN PIPE H’CAP HURDLE FLAXEN FLARE (5th 2014 County Hdle, 1st 2013 Fred Winter).
5.30 GRAND ANNUAL HANDICAP CHASE BORN SURVIVOR (6th 2017 Martin Pipe) BOUVREUIL (3rd 2017 Stable Plate, 2nd 2016 Close Bros H’cap, 2nd 2015 Fred Winter). BUN DORAN (6th, 2017 Close Bros H’cap). EASTLAKE (2nd 2015, 6th 2014 in this race). FOREST BIHAN (5th 2017 Arkle Chase). ROCK THE WORLD (1st 2017, 3rd 2016 in this race). SOME PLAN (6th 2017 Arkle Chase). THE GAME CHANGER (4th 2016 Arkle). THEINVAL (3rd 2017 in this race). TOP GAMBLE (4th 2017 Champion Chase). VALDEZ (5th 2014 Arkle). VANITEUX (3rd, 2014 Supreme Nov Hdle).