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Cheletenham Festival Tips From Tom Lee
Tom will be giving us his best Cheltenham Festival tips the night before each days racing, so make sure you bookmaker this page before placing your bets. On Day one, Tom tipped up three each way runners who finished second and also the winner in the last, Quevega. Day two was a tough day for tipsters and punters alike so we're hoping for some more luck on Thursday.
1:30 JCB Triumph Hurdle - Grade 1 - 2m1f
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2:05 Vincent O'Brien County Handicap Hurdle - 2m1f
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2:40 Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle - Grade 1 - 3m
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3:20 Totesport Gold Cup - Grade 1 - 3m2f 110yds
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4:00 Christie's Foxhunter Chase Challenge Cup - 3m2f 110yds
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4:40 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockey's Handicap Hurdle - 2m4f 110yds
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5:15 Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase - 2m110yds
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1:30 Jewson Novices' Handicap Chase - 2m5f
Tom is looking to get back to winning ways today in the first and reckons the Nicky Henderson trained Dave's Dream has a great chance at twice the odds of favourite Rivaliste. He's well weighted and can give Henderson his third title of the week.
Selection: Dave's Dream (each-way)
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2:05 Pertemps Final Handicap Hurdle 3m
No tips today for this competitive handicap hurdle.
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2:40 Ryanair Chase - Grade 1 - 2m5f
Tom thinks that favourite Pocquelin will take the beating in the Ryanair Chase and we agree. The horse is a course and distance winner in the Autumn and performed admirally in the Paddy Power Gold Cup giving weight to the winner Tranquil Sea in ground he detested, staying on up the hill to finish second. We're all in agreance that he can reverse the form today.
Selection: Poquelin (win)
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3:20 Ladbrokes World Hurdle - Grade 1 - 3m
Although Tom cannot see past Big Buck's winning the feature race of the day, he will be having a couple of small each-way bets on big priced horses. Powerstation from Ireland and Lie Forrit from Scotland will give him an interest in the race.
Selections: Powerstation and Lie Forrit (each-way)
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4:00 Byrne Group Plate Handicap Chase - 2m5f
Watch My Back is Tom's last tip of the day in the Festival Plate. This horse hosed up at Doncaster last time and has been aimed at this race by trianer Ferdy Murphy who trained Poker De Sivola to victory on Wednesday.
Selection: Watch My Back (each-way)
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4:40 Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup Handicap Chase - 3m1f 110yds
No tip today for this compeititive handicap chase for the amateur riders.
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1:30 140th Year Of The National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup - 4m
Twenty runners go to post in this novice four miler in what is traditionally a tough one to call in terms of picking a winner. Tom Lee had a solid first day's tipping, with a winner in the last in the shape of Quevega plus some place money picked up with the likes of Kalahari King and Somersby. First up on day two Tom has plummed for the Venetia Williams Mobaasher. Word is Williams has nominated the seven-year-old as her best winning opportunity of the week and we know that she has what it takes to win at Cheltenham.
Selection: Mobaasher (each-way)
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2:05 Neptune Investment Management Novices' Hurdle - Grade 1 - 2m5f
Tom has tipped up Willie Mullins' classy hurdler Quel Esprit in the Neptune Novices' Hurdle at five past two. Fourth to Dunguib in last year's Bumper, 'Quel Esprit has made excellent progress since making his trasition to hurdle and is very well fancied by connections' commented Lee. Ruby Walsh and Willie Mullins paired up for Tom's first winner of the festival on Tuesday in the shape of Quevega and he fancies the pair to deliver again here.
Selection: Quel Esprit (win)
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2:30 RSA Chase - Grade 1 - 3m110yds
Tom reckons that Punchestowns will make the transition to chasing from hurdles to win the RSA Chase and reverse the betting on stablemate and current favourite Long Run. With the experience of Barry Geraghty in the saddle opposed to amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen on Long Run, plus the fact that he chased Big Buck's home close in last year's World Hurdle, we agree that Punchestowns will take all the besting here.
Selection: Punchestowns (win)
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3:20 Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase - Grade 1 - 2m
With Master Minded such a short priced favourite, Tom has tried to find a bit of each-way value on the second fav for the Queen Mother, Kalahari King. The Ferdy Murphy trained runner up in the Arkle last year, certainly ticks some of the boxes and will enjoy the quick ground. We tipped this up antepost (below) last month after he won the Blue Square Chase at Doncaster and we're delighted Tom feels the same way.
Selection: Kalahari King (each-way)
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4:00 Coral Cup - Grade 3 - 2m5f
Tom has tipped up Mamlook in this competitiive twenty-eught runner handicap hurdle. Second in the Cesarewitch last Autumn and fourth place behind Get Me Out Of Here in the Totesport Trophy last month make him stand out at a big price.
Selection: Mamlook (each-way)
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4:40 Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' Hurdle - Grade 3 - 2m110yds
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5:15 Weatherbys Champion Bumper - Grade 1 - 2m110yds
Drumbaloo has received plenty of ante-post money in the lead up the Champion Bumper and with the eyecatching jockey booking of Robert 'Choc' Thornton to boot Drumbaloo ticks the boxes in this race.
Selection: Drumbaloo (each-way)
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1:30 Spinal Research Supreme Novices' Hurdle - Grade 1 - 2m110yds
Our very own Channel 4 Racing's Tom Lee has gone against the red-hot favourite in the first race of the 2010 Cheltenham Festival. Rather than risking your bank on a short priced favourite in the hustle and bustle of the Supreme, he's plumbed for the recent Totesport Trophy winner and general 4/1 second favourite Get Me Out Of Here to cause an upset. The Jonjo O'Neill trained horse was an impressive winner at Newbury last time out despite a last fence blunder, but Tom commented - 'the mistake would have beaten letter animals, but I love the way this horse rallied and in the end won going away'.
Selection: Get Me Out Of Here (each-way) SECOND
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2.05 Irish Independent Arkle Challenge Trophy Chase - Grade - 1 2m
The Henrietta Knight trained Somersby is a horse that Tom very much admires and he is his pick in the second race on the card, the Arkle Challenge Trophy Chase. This horse was a useful hurdler last season, finishing third in the 2009 Supreme Novices' Hurdle and has taken to the bigger obstacles like a duck to water, winning well at Sandown last time out. He may have only raced twice over the big fences but the way he attacked the railways fences at Sandown was a joy to watch and around the 4/1 shot looks a solid chance here. Tom's tip also nicely matches our very own ante-post tip provided last month (below), 7/1 at the time.
Selection: Somersby (win) SECOND
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2:40 William Hill Trophy Handicap Chase - Grade 3 - 3m110yds
In the first big handicap chase of the meeting, Tom thinks the David Pipe trained The Package is the real deal and can take full advantage of his weight. 'They've had to be patient to get him here off a mark of 141, but that's exactly what the Nicholshayne team have managed' commented Tom, who is confident the horse can follow up his win at the course last December.
Selection: The Package (each-way) SECOND
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3:20 Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle - Grade 1 - 2m110yds
The big race of the day and Tom has gone for one of the race's unfashionable runners in Khyber Kim. Lee backed this horse some time ago in the ante-post market and is confident in his selection, with the horse going well fresh and his affinity with the Cheltenham hill. If there is a horse Tom fears, it is the favourite Go Native. 'If there is one to beat him I think Go Native is the one, with tonnes of natural speed you can expect him to come fast and late under Paul Carberry'.
Selections: Go Native (win) & Khyber Kim (each-way) SECOND
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4:00 Glenfarcas Cross Country Handicap Chase - Class 2 - 3m7f
In the four o'clock Cross Country race, Tom cannot see past favourite Garde Champetre racking up his third consecutive win in the race. Enda Bolger is something of a cross country specialist at home in Ireland and at the Festival having saddled the first three home in the race last year and it will take a considerable effort to stop him claiming top spot again in 2010.
Selection: Garde Champetre (win)
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4:40 David Nicholson Mares' Hurdle - Grade 2 - 2m4f
The final race on the first day card is an all female affair in the David Nicholson Mares Only race. The betting suggests this will be a two horse race between favourite Voler La Vedette and Quevega, and it is the latter horse who Tom thinks will retain her crown on Tuesday.
Selection: Quevega (win) FIRST
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Arkle Challenge Trophy Tip
Henrietta Knight's six year old Somersby has been aimed at this race ever since finishing third in the 2009 Supreme Novice's Hurdle. The novice chaser is two from two over the big fences including an impressive win last time out at Sandown Park where he beat the highly rated Crack Away Jack.
Somersby - 7/1 best price at time of writing - 12th Feb 2010
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Queen Mother Champion Chase
Kalahari King was a runner up in the 2009 Arkle and is currently third favourite for the Queen Mother Champion Chase. On his two appearances this season the nine-year-old finished second behind Twist Magic in the Tingle Creek and won the Blue Square Chase at Doncaster carrying top weight when the the trainer Ferdy Murphy said he'd need a run. Although winning on good to soft, this horse prefers the quicker ground he's likely to get at Cheltenham and looks the best alternative to the two market leaders. Favourite Master Minded has had injury problems and Twist Magic, despite some vintage performances this season has yet to convice at the Prestbury Park track.
Kalahari King - 6/1 best price at time of writing - 12th Feb 2010
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