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YOUR best chance of beating the bookies this week is to stick with Sportsmail’s brilliant team of tipsters, led all the way through the Festival by National Hunt legend Peter Scudamore, former Grade One winning jockey Lizzie Kelly and our very own Robin Goodfellow. . .

Peter Scudamore 8-TIME CHAMPION JOCKEY

CONDITIONS will still be very tough this afternoon and you are going to need a hardened old pro in a race like the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase. Look no further than STAY AWAY FAY.

The Paul Nicholls-trained seven-year-old won last year’s Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle, a race that takes some grinding out. This season he won his first two novices chases and then took on senior opposition when third to Capodanno in the Cotswold Chase on Cheltenham Trials day. All that experience will stand him in good stead as he takes on Irish favourite Fact To File, who has a big reputation and been pitched straight into chasing after a season running in National Hunt Flat races. His ability is not in question but his racing heart will be tested out.

BALLYBURN, the Willie Mullinstrained odds-on favourite for the opening Gallagher Novices’

Hurdle, looks the certainty of the week but he is not a feasible betting proposition. He fluffed his lines on his first hurdle run but has since looked outstanding. He would not have been out of place in the Champion Hurdle! DODDIETHEGREAT finished strongly when fourth to stablemate Iberico Lord in Newbury’s Betfair Hurdle, and the five furlongs extra he faces in the Coral Cup should be in his favour. The horse is named after the popular late Scottish rugby player Doddie Weir and any money he wins goes to the foundation Weir founded to fund research into motor neurone disease.