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Though the first Classics of the Flat season are fast approaching, with Newmarket hosting the 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas in a fortnight, jump racing is very much the focal point this week, with the Punchestown Festival taking centre stage. TV…
The John Smith’s Grand National has improved markedly in terms of the quality of horse it attracts in recent years, and this season’s renewal is certainly indicative of that trend.
Indeed, the weights for Saturday’s big race at Aintree are headed by a former Cheltenham Gold Cup hero, Imperial Commander, while there are a number of winners of graded races in the line-up, including What A Friend, Weird Al, Joncol, Quel Esprit and more besides.
The Grand National fences will be warmed up ahead of this weekend’s main event at Aintree on Friday, with the John Smith’s Topham Chase on the tasty Channel 4 racing menu for Friday.
Chance du Roy appeared to be going as well as anything else tipping up at the fifth-last in the C&D Grand Sefton in December, a race eventually won by the re-opposing Little Josh.
Following a rollercoaster four days at the Cheltenham Festival last month, punters’ attention now turns to the three-day Aintree meeting, which commences on Thursday. We will deliver an unrivalled Grand National betting preview ahead of Saturday’s main event, but the focus at this point is on the big race of the opening day, the Betfred Bowl Chase.
Silviniaco Conti appeared to be very much in contention when coming to grief at the third-last in the Gold Cup last month, and Paul Nicholls’ charge is widely expected to gain compensation in this Grade 1 contest.
With the Grand National just 10 days away, Willie Mullins trained Irish raider On His Own heads the market at 7/1 with William Hill for the coveted event at Aintree.
The 9 year old gelding who fell at Bechers Brook in last years National, won by Neptunes Collonges, has been kept fresh by the Mullins camp with just one run in the last 12 months, reappearing in a 2m 5f Navan hurdle in mid February and taking the spoils at 10/1, with highly regarded Thousand Stars trailing in last place.
This year’s Cheltenham Festival has proven to be something of a bloodbath for most punters (myself very much included) so far, but right from the start of the week I felt the best was being saved for last in terms of betting opportunities.
The race I have been looking forward to most is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Betfred Gold Cup. It features a horse that I believe will not only win this time round, but go on to rule the roost in the staying chasers’ division for seasons to come. The horse in question is SILVINIACO CONTI.