Just 8 days to go now and the Cheltenham Festival will be with us. I have just been taking a look at some of the odds on specialist bets for the meeting. I think my favourite is how many pints of Guinness will be drunk during the meeting. The favourite is between 180,001 and 195,000 pints at 9/4. As far as the bookies are concerned it appears that Paul Nicholls and Ruby Walsh are home and hosed as leading trainer and jockey. I have to admit that odds of 8/15 on Walsh seem a little bit skinny considering what a risky game it is being a jump jockey.
The word from Ireland is that Dunguid will not run in the Champion Hurdle and there is also serious doubt about Solwhit participation after a bad scope. It will be a loss if neither horse can take part as they are currently joint second favourites at 5/1. Go Native at 7/2 is the current favourite. If you follow the trends for the Champikon Hurdle you should be looking for a horse that has run in the last 51 days (11/11) is aged between 6 & 9 (10/11) and won last time out (9/11). The favourite rates on two of those three but is will be 79 days since its last race. Interestingly only 3 runners in the last 30 years have not run since the start of the year.
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