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Right here we go within the division that has by no means fairly caught the creativeness for the reason that days of Massive Buck’s adopted Inglis Drever and the good Baracouda.
Extra element on that Frankie Dettori story.
If Truth To File goals for the Gold Cup subsequent 12 months, what about this 12 months?
Not like Mullins’s Al Boum Picture, who got here up brief as a 9-4 shot when trying a 3rd straight win in 2021, it is rather onerous to see Galopin Des Champs being crushed.
4.00 market movers through Oddspedia
4.00 Stayers’ Hurdle odds
Odds through Oddschecker
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Teahupoo 2/1
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The Wallpark 5/1
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Protektorat 11/2
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Dwelling By The Lee 7/1
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Bob Olinger 10/1
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Catch Him Derry 14/1
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Mystical Power16/1
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Nemean Lion 22/1
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Rocky’s Diamond 28/1
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Gowel Highway 28/1
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BAR 33/1 – 13 Runners
Key Race Developments
Greg Wooden
4.00 PADDY POWER STAYERS’ HURDLE, GRADE ONE, 2M 7F 213YD preview
Gordon Elliott has not been having every week to recollect to date, however he has a really sturdy hand within the staying hurdlers’ Grade one with each the favorite and final 12 months’s winner, Teahupoo, and the up-and-coming second-favourite, The Wallpark, who has attracted loads of cash in the present day. Teahupoo has had the identical mild prep that he loved final 12 months earlier than getting off the mark on this race on the second try, whereas The Wallpark has been stored recent since ending a running-on fourth within the Lengthy Stroll at Ascot in December. The primary opposition to the Elliott crew appears more likely to come from Dwelling By The Lee, third behind Teahupoo final 12 months and a Grade One winner at Leopardstown final day out, and likewise Nicky Henderson’s Fortunate Place, rumoured to have been tearing up the gallops since touchdown the Grade Two Relkeel Hurdle right here on New 12 months’s Day. The mercurial Mystical Energy – by Galileo out of the Champion Hurdle winner, Annie Energy – additionally charges a point out, as he has been woefully out of shape this season however would have a good probability if he might recapture his Grade One-winning kind at Aintree and Punchestown final spring.
SELECTION: TEAHUPOO
KEY FORM:
Paddy Energy Stayers’ Hurdle, Cheltenham, 14 Mar 24 (Teahupoo, Dwelling By The Lee)
Lengthy Stroll Hurdle, Ascot, 21 Dec 24 (The Wallpark).
Savills Hurdle, Leopardstown, 28 Dec 24 (Dwelling By The Lee)
Relkeel Hurdle, Cheltenham, 1 Jan 25 (Fortunate Place).
“He’ll in all probability be a Gold Cup horse subsequent 12 months, JP [McManus, owner] stated he didn’t need him to have a tough race this 12 months,” says coach Willie Mullins, who has pulled in six winners already.
Cheltenham 3.20 end result
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1. Truth To File (M P Walsh) 6-4 Fav
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2. Coronary heart Wooden (D J O’Keeffe) 18-1
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3, Envoi Allen (Rachael Blackmore) 12-1
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9 ran
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Additionally: 5-1 Protektorat 4th
“That was sensible,” says Mark Walsh. “We’ve run into Galopin de Champs twice. No level making an attempt it a 3rd time. I find it irresistible. It’s a dream to trip horses like this.”
Truth To File wins the Ryanair Chase by a avenue
Truth To File closes in on Il Est Francais. With two to go, Truth To File leads, and he’s nicely clear. He’s nicely clear, and has the race in his palms. Why wasn’t he within the Gold Cup? Envoi Allen is available in third behind Coronary heart Wooden. Il Est Francais got here again within the discipline.
3.20 Ryanair Chase
With eight to go, Il Est Francais is main, as anticipated. Seven out, Jungle Boogie boobs however Truth To File will not be troubled. 5 out, and the French horse stays clear.
3.20 Ryanair Chase
Previous the stand, Danny Mullins leads on Jungle Boogie. Djelo sits proper off the again. Right here goes Il Est Francais as they swing previous the Greatest Mate stand and into open nation.
3.20 Ryanair Chase
They go away first time, and it’s Jungle Boogie who leads. Il Est Francais not fast to take it up. Djelo sits on the again. Truth To File sits off the third-placed French horse. He appears completely happy to take a seat off the lead below James Reveley.
Cash coming in for Il Est Francais, too. Truth To File drifting like a barge?
Truth To File heads to the course. Ought to he be working within the Gold Cup? We’re about to seek out out. Cash has are available in on Djelo – a Venetia Williams plot?
Frankie Dettori information for chapter
Information from elsewhere, from the flat, a press release from the legendary jockey.
“For the final six months, my advisors have been working with HMRC in an try to discover a answer to my monetary scenario. Regretfully, I will likely be submitting for chapter.
I’m saddened and embarrassed by this end result and would advise others to take a stronger rein over their monetary issues. Chapter is a serious determination and its penalties will have an effect on me for a few years.”
3:20 market movers through Oddspedia
3.20 Ryanair Chase
Odds through Oddschecker
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Truth To File 13/8
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Il Est Francais 4/1
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Protektorat 7/1
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Djelo 7/1
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Envoi Allen 11/1
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Catch Him Derry 14/1
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Jungle Boogie 16/1
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Coronary heart Wooden 16/1
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Grasp Chewy 40/1
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Cling In There 125/1
Key Race Developments
3.20 RYANAIR CHASE, GRADE ONE, 2M 4F 127YD PREVIEW
Fairly probably the race of the day, for all that it sits within the “No.2” slot on the cardboard, 40 minutes earlier than the Stayers’ at 4pm, and a genuinely tri-nation contest besides with main candidates from Eire, Britain and France. Il Est Francais, who arrives from the Chantilly steady of Noel George and Amanda Zetterholm, is the potential star flip if he can reproduce the bold-jumping, front-running fashion that noticed him lead the King George discipline for a lot of the way in which at this very totally different monitor, whereas the drop again in journey also needs to go well with Truth To File, a Grade One winner right here final 12 months who ran nicely for a great distance behind Galopin Des Champs within the Irish Gold Cup final time. Protektorat, final 12 months’s winner, can be again for an additional crack, though this seems to be like a stronger renewal, whereas Venetia Williams’s Djelo, who landed a Grade Two at Newbury final day out, has additionally been standard with the punters this morning. Among the many larger costs, Henry de Bromhead has three runners together with pageant common Envoi Allen, the winner of this two years in the past and likewise profitable within the Bumper in 2019 and the two-and-a-half mile novice hurdle a 12 months later. One other attention-grabbing runner from the yard, in the meantime, is Jungle Boogie, who has had an injury-blighted profession however hardly ever runs a foul race when he will get to the monitor and went nicely for a great distance in final 12 months’s Gold Cup.
SELECTION: IL EST FRANCAIS.
KEY FORM:
Irish Gold Cup Chase, Leopardstown, 1 Feb 25 (Truth To File).
King George VI Chase, Kempton, 25 Dec 24 (Il Est Francais, Envoi Allen).
Ryanair Chase, Cheltenham, 14 Mar 24 (Protektorat, Envoi Allen).
Denman Chase, Newbury, 8 Feb 25 (Djelo).
Cheltenham 2.40 end result
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1 Doddiethegreat (B S Hughes) 25-1
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2 Jeriko Du Reponet (N de Boinville) 11-2 Fav
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3 Catch Him Derry (Harry Skelton) 14-1
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4 Toes Of A Dancer (S F O’Keeffe) 15-2
24 ran
“All of us appreciated Doddie,” says Nicky Henderson. “It didn’t seem like he would get again to a racecourse however he has.”
Doddiethegreat wins it, and keep in mind the horse was named after the good Doddie Weir. One other particular second. Brian Hughes, the three-time champion jockey, hardly ever will get to trip on the Pageant. “I’ve had lots of stick,” he says. “I used to be fortunate sufficient to satisfy Doddie Weir, a very particular man.”
Doddiethegreat wins the Pertemps last
Because the race comes aside, Doddiethegreat leads them out, from Jeriko Du Reponet, a one-two for the Henderson crew. Bryan Hughes rode the winner.
2.40 pm Pertemps Remaining
Toes of a Dancer is struggling to discover a approach by means of with two to leap. Will The Sensible making floor? American Sniper nonetheless leads two out. Can he maintain on?
2.40 pm Pertemps Remaining
American Sniper resumes his solitude out entrance. 4 to leap. Not a lot is occurring in the principle discipline as they take that lengthy, sweeping transfer to the hill and down.
2.40 pm Pertemps Remaining
With eight nonetheless to leap, American Sniper zips away by many lengths as he takes them previous the Greatest Mate stand after having lead reduce to 2 lengths. Lots of the fancied horses in midfield.
2.40 pm Pertemps Remaining
Extra chaos initially…however away they go. American Sniper, backside weight, goes to the fore. DoddieTheGreat is on the entrance of the pack, Patter Service provider makes an early mistake.

Greg Wooden
2.40 PERTEMPS NETWORK FINAL HANDICAP HURDLE, 2M 7F 213YD
Sponsors come and sponsors go elsewhere on the pageant programme, however the Pertemps Remaining – first run in 2002 – retains marching on in the direction of a quarter-century and extra. It’s a fascinating contest, with runners obliged to qualify through one among greater than a dozen races in Britain, Eire and France, which additionally implies that punters ought to have loads of kind in related races to work with in the case of in the present day’s Remaining. But it surely stays a frightening problem, with no finish of prospects and plotlines for backers to contemplate together with the near-certainty that at the very least one of many JP McManus-owned runners – Jeriko Du Reponet and Win Some Lose Some – has been steering in the direction of in the present day’s race for months. Dan Skelton, in all probability the neatest coach within the British ranks today in the case of readying one for a pageant handicap, additionally has a reside contender in Catch Him Derry, whereas Tom Cooper’s D Artwork D Artwork, who has not raced since his qualifier in December, has emerged as favorite since I put him up at a number of factors larger yesterday. Since my suggestions right here typically appear to go the opposite approach available in the market, I can solely assume that the truth that Tom Segal and Paul Kealy, maybe the 2 most high-profile tipsters within the Racing Put up, have additionally tipped him up is the principle motive for the cash.
SELECTION: D ART D ART.
2.40 pm market movers through Oddspedia
2.40 Pertemps Community Remaining odds
Odds through Oddschecker
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D Artwork D Artwork 6/1
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Toes Of A Dancer 8/1
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Jeriko Du Reponet 8/1
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Win Some Lose Some 9/1
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Will The Wise11/1
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Catch Him Derry 14/1
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Karl Des Tourelles 14/1
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Patter Service provider 14/1
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Henri The Second 20/1
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One Massive Bang 22/1
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BAR 22/1 – 24 Runners
Key Race Developments
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Solely 2 of the previous 12 favourites have received this race.
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Solely 3 of the earlier 12 winners have received their race earlier than profitable this one.
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8 of the final 12 winners have received carrying 11st4lbs or much less.
Two enormous outsiders there in second and third. Fav backers are nonetheless struggling.
Cheltenham 2.00 end result
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1 Caldwell Potter (H Cobden) 7-1
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2 Anyway (D J O’Keeffe) 125-1
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3 O’Moore Park (S F O’Keeffe) 66-1
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4 Nurburgring (J J Slevin) 9-1
19 ran
Additionally: 4-1 Fav Firefox
Non Runner: 19
Unhappy information: Springwell Bay sadly misplaced his life in that race. Extra information to comply with…
“It’s irrelevant what they value, however we bought him proper,” says Nicholls. The late John Hales purchased this horse to interchange the misplaced Hermes Allen. Somebody’s simply given Fergie a congratulatory slap throughout the chops. The outdated boy seems to be completely happy sufficient.
It received within the John Hales color, and as a gray. An emotional win. “He’s been a tough horse to coach,” says Harry Cobden. “Paul and Clifford (head lad) have finished a terrific job with him.”
That’s Paul Nicholls’ fiftieth pageant win. “While you don’t have the horses, it’s a tough job…he’s low-cost now, isn’t he?”
Caldwell Potter wins the Jack Richards’ Handicap Chase!
Moon D’Orange is among the first to wrestle. Caldwell Potter is challenged however with two to leap he goes on and on, and off a kick. Can they catch him? During the last he goes. And he’s bought this licked. Sir Alex Ferguson has a diamond of a horse. Paul Nicholls is again! What a coaching efficiency. Nice trip from Harry Cobden.
2.00 Jack Richards’ Handicap Chase
No errors, good leaping all spherical as they attain eight to go. Caldwell Potter is seeing a superb stride. Firefox sat ready. Nurgburgring is sat patiently Caldwell Potter nonetheless leads at 5 to leap.
2.00 Jack Richards’ Handicap Chase
Caldwell Potter is eager, possibly he’s a machine. Moon D’Orange in midfield. They’re being fairly nicely strung out. Caldwell Potter leads them previous the stands with 10 to leap.
2.00 Jack Richards’ Handicap Chase
There’s yet one more false begin – to boos. Not sufficient of them have been straight. A standing begin, and a pair are caught flat-footed. Caldwell Potter is the early chief, Firefox to the within.