Cheltenham Festival Betting Guide 2010

The countdown is on! The 2010 Cheltenham Festival is just over five weeks away and as the excitement builds, punters look towards some last minute pointers towards where their money should be going for each of the Festival's 26 races. Trainers are busy putting the finishing touches towards their runners preparations and Racing fans can look forward seeing many of the leading fancies over the next couple of weeks in their prep runs before the festival kicks off on the 16th March 2010.

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This weekend started with Binocular getting back to winning ways in a 3 horse race at Doncaster and this was a nice performance that puts him back in the Champion Hurdle picture.

Next up was Captain Cee Bee running at Naas in an effort to get some jumping experience before the Arkle looked very impressive but at the last did a Kauto Star and nearly came down once more. He clearly has an engine and will be one of the favourites for the March feature but the big question is will be get round when the heat is on coming down the famous Cheltenham Hill.

Punchestowns had to recover from a very bad mistake out the far side of the Sandown track in the totepool challanges novice to get back up and win well in the end from a pretty useful Paul Nicholls novice in Tchico Polos. This showed the class of the winner and his odds will reflect this in the RSA Chase Betting. An interesting each way alternative bet could well be Weird Al who keep up his winning ways over fences and you can get more information on our RSA Chase form feature.

Yet More Clues on Saturday, this time for the Queen Mother Champion Chase when Kalahari King came home like the class horse he is and trainer Ferdy Murphy will be delighted with this performance which puts him right in the picture for the feature race on day 2 of the festival.

Sunday and all eyes focused on Leopardstown and Pittoni won with his head in his chest in the grade 1 juvenile and this performance will secure his position in the Triumph Hurdle betting.

Dunguib kicked his hurdles out of the way in his prep race for the Supreme Novices but once again there is nothing that has his engine and this horse is a freak and he is bound to get the Irish off to a great start on the 16th March. 

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The 2010 Cheltenham Gold Cup between Kauto Star and Denman promises to be the highlight of this year's festival. Everything is set up for a great race between the Paul Nicholls trained pair and with both in great form and health, it really is a case of take your pick for with the score currently 1-1 in the race from the past two years.

The Champion Hurdle finally is getting some sort of order, with Zaynar unbeaten over hurdles as one of the key contenders, Solwhit winner of the Irish Champion Hurdle is very much a player and Go Native who followed up his success in the Fighting Fifth in the Christmas Hurdle.  Khyber Kim's performance in the Boylesports International took a knock with Celestial Halo getting trounced in the Irish Champion Hurdle.

The Queen Mother is now wide open with all the leading contenders getting beat in their early season trials. The Tingle Creek may have provided some light on this years race with Twist Magic putting up a very impressive performance and following up in the Victor Chandler Chase.

Sizing Europe goes straight to the festival following his fourth successive victory over fences but we think he would have been beat by Captain Cee Bee if he stood up at Leopardstown over Christmas. Arkle Chase Ante Post Betting. Somersby could well be a pretender for the race having won the Henry VIII Chase at Sandown.

The Ladbrokes World Hurdle has a clear favourite in Big Bucks who was very impressive in the Long Distance Hurdle on Hennessy Day, and followed up in the Long Walk hurdle and there does not look like any opposition to the champion stayer.

Already it looks like the Supreme Novices is a one horse race with Dunguib looking exceptional and it looks like he may get punters off to a good start come March 16th. Supreme Novices Hurdle Odds.

All Early Birds can now view our ODDS COMPARISON CHARTS for the 4 feature Cheltenham Festival 2010 Races, the Cheltenham Gold Cup Odds, the Champion Hurdle Betting, the Ladbroke World Hurdle and the Queen Mother Champion Chase.

As usual we will have all the Cheltenham Festival odds for all the races on our odds comparison service and we will have these available once all the bookmakers open there markets for the races. We know from feedback that you appreciated the Cheltenham Tipping service from our resident tipster Tom Lee of Channel 4 and RTE racing. He will be trying to get all the news doing the circuit in his pursuit to offer you some tips for the 4 days of the festival.

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• Ladbroke World Hurdle Contenders Running Scared of Big Bucks
• Khyber Kim looking to maintain 100% Record in Champion Hurdle

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