Peter Scudamore

8-TIME CHAMPION JOCKEY

WINNING back-to-back handicaps at the Cheltenham Festival is tough but far from impossible and I’m backing CORACH RAMBLER (nap) to do just that in this afternoon’s Ultima Handicap Chase. David Pipe-trained Un Temps Pour Tout won the Ultima in 2016 and 2017 defying a 7lb rise to his handicap mark to win for the second time.

Corach Rambler races off a mark 6lb higher than his 2022 winning one and I can assure you he is in great form.

I ride him nearly every day in my job as assistant to my trainer partner Lucinda Russell.

Next month’s Grand National is the big target for Corach Rambler this season but that doesn’t mean this is a prep race for the Aintree spectacular. He is ready for today and went very well in a recent gallop at Carlisle racecourse.

I am backing Britain’s champion trainer Paul Nicholls to have a good week and I expect his Tahmuras to run very well in the opening Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, having won all three of his races over obstacles.