Ed’s bet of the day
Sir Anthony Mccoy is working alongside me on ITV all week and I sense that he and Team Mcmanus really like his chance in the last race. They could have run Movewiththetimes, so it is significant that Any Second Now will represent them. Champion Hurdle, the Racing Post Arkle looks like a classic and could be the race of the week despite the small field.
Footpad, Petit Mouchoir and Saint Calvados are all good enough to win a standard Arkle. I am keen on Footpad, who looks an absolute natural over fences in a race where jumping will be all important.
I am good friends with Simon Munir, who owns him with
Isaac Souede, and he is Arsenal-mad, so he could do with a bit of cheering up. Simon reckons this is his best chance of the week and, if he can stay with Saint
Calvados then he should have the class.
That being said, Saint Calvados will go from the front and he will love all this rain. If he was trained by a
Henderson or a Mullins he would go off much shorter.
This has been a year in which female jockeys have come to the fore and I think Lizzie Kelly could well be celebrating with Coo Star Sivola in the Ultima Handicap Chase.