Cheltenham Festival Betting 2010 / Cheltenham Free Bets

Day 2 of the Cheltenham Festivals sees 7 more big races including the feature race the Queen Mother CHase at 3:20.

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Cheltenham Day 2 Card

1.30 – National Hunt Steeple Chase Challenge
2.05 – Ballymore Properties Novices’ Hurdle
2.40 – RSA Steeple Chase
3.20 – Queen Mother Champion Chase
4.00 – Coral Cup (Handicap Hurdle)
4.40 – Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle
5.15 – Weatherbys Champion Bumper

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The Champion Chase often attracts smaller fields than the other Grade One events at the Cheltenham Festival but this feature contest of the second day of the meeting has lost none of its prestige as a result.

2.20 Cheltenham, Queen Mother Champion Chase, 2m

The sight of the best two-mile chasers jumping the 12 fences at championship pace with no margin for error is one of the highlights of the meeting and has produced some great finishes over the years. In 1994 Viking Flagship, Travado and Deep Sensation fought out one of the most memorable races ever seen at the Festival, while more recently Irish legend Moscow Flyer won it twice in 2003 and 2005.

4.00 Cheltenham, Coral Cup Handicap Hurdle, 2m

Winning recent form has to be taken into account when attempting to find the winner of this hugely-competitive event, as five of the last six scorers came into the race having been successful on their previous outing. Since the race was first run in 1993 only two favourites have been successful, although bookmakers took a hammering when Tony Martin’s Xenophon landed a massive gamble in 2003. However no horse bigger than 33/1 has obliged in the race so, judging upon previous trends, complete outsiders may be best disregarded.

2.40 Cheltenham, Royal and Sun Alliance Chase, 3m and 1/2f

Almost certainly the stiffest test of stamina that any of these novice steeplechasers will ever have faced and any chinks in the armour will soon be exposed. But this contest has also been won by some of the very best jumpers around and the likes of Arkle, Master Smudge, Looks Like Trouble and – most recently – Denman have gone on to take the Gold Cup having first shown their Festival mettle here.

Paul Nicholls was securing back-to-back victories as Denman followed stable companion Star De Mohaison into the winner’s enclosure and the stable will once again hold a strong hand in this year’s race, with leading fancy What A Friend, part-owned by Sir Alex Ferguson whose previous ventures into racehorse ownership have often proved highly successful.

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