Cheltenham Festival Wednesday

Wednesday Cheltenham Festival Races

After the excitement of the first day, day two promises to be equally exciting. The main highlight of the seven race Wednesday card at the Cheltenham Festival is the Queen Mother Champion Chase.

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Time Race    
13.30 National Hunt Challenge Cup Weights  Betting Offers
14.05 Neptune Novices Hurdle Form Betting Offers
14.40 RSA Chase Form Betting Offers
15.20 Queen Mother Champion Chase Form  Betting Offers
16.00 Coral Cup Weights  Betting Offers
16.40 Fred Winter Hurdle Weights  Betting Offers
16.40 Champion Bumper Form  Betting Offers 

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The day kicks off with the National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup run over four miles with amateur jockeys on board. This is the oldest race on the four day card and has been run 137 times and was the race the Festival was built up around. A good race for outsiders in recent years, Butlers cabin won in 2007, but the three years prior to that winners were 33/1, 33/1 and 40/1. The 2010 renewal looks another open contest, with the likes of Any Currency, Massasoit and Synchronised prominent in the betting.

Next up is the Neptune Novices' Hurdle (formally the Ballymore), run over 2 miles and five furlongs and is a Class A Grade 1 Hurdle, open to novices aged four and over. Having had four favourites on the trot win between 1997-2000, there was not another one until Mikael D'Haguenet won in 2009. Rite Of Passage is another Irish runner in warm order to win this race in 2010.

The third race is the RSA Chase a race won by Cooldine in 2009 and Albertas Run the year before. Both were favourites and were clearly the class horses in their respective races. This race is a good stepping stone to bigger things as Denman showed after winning it in 2007 and we all know what followed in 2008. So this is a race to keep an eye on for future stars. With the Nicky Henderson pair of Long Run and Punchestowns going head to head in this race in 2010 it looks to be one of the races of the meeting.

The Queen Mother Champion Chase is next and this will decide who the Champion Chaser over two miles will be and is the feature race of the day. Won by Master Minded in 2008 and 2009 the brilliant horse will go for the hat-trick in 2010 and he's a red hot favourite to do just that. No horse has come near him in the last two years but the likes of stable mate Twist Magic and last year's Arkle runner-up Kalahari King have received plenty of support in the betting for this year's renewal.

Fifth race on the card is the Coral Cup, a race that usually wins for the bookmakers and notoriously difficult to pick the winner for punters. The Harry Findlay owned Beshabar is the ante-post favourite for the 2010 renewal but the betting is wide open for this one.

The Coral Cup is followed by the Fred Winter Juvenile Novice’s Handicap Hurdle, won last year with odds of 11/1 by Silk Affair. This will be only the sixth running and it has been a good race so far for the bookies, with a 40/1 winner in 2006 and a 20/1 winner in 2005. Notus De La Tour and Sanctuaire are battling it out for favourtism in this year's race.

Final race of the day is the Champion Bumper, notoriously a good race for the Irish, having won fourteen of the last seventeen runnings. Things don't look any different this year, as the Dermot Weld trained duo of Elegant Concorde and Hidden Universe, whilst there's been a gamble on Drumbaloo, who will be ridden by Robert Thornton.

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