Cheltenham Festival Day 2: Best Bets for Wednesday at the Festival

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We made a slight profit on Day 1 of the Cheltenham Festival with Corach Rambler doing the business and Byker grabbing a place. Hopefully, you picked out some winners, and let us know in the comments if you did and what you fancy for today!

We saw some brilliant performances yesterday, with Constitution Hill proving what a class act he is. He is a horse of a generation and I can't see how he gets beat. He'll have a lot of horses avoiding him, so I can envisage the future Champion Hurdle races being very poor and him going off at Frankel odds of 1/20, etc unless they send him chasing, which would be a mouth-watering prospect.

All my detailed previews for Day 2 at the Cheltenham Festival can be found below. (will update as they get posted, so in the meantime put your thoughts of tomorrow's racing in the comments)

• 13:30 The Ballymore Novices' Hurdle
• 14:10 The Brown Advisory Novices' Chase
• 14:50 The Coral Cup Handicap Hurdle
• 15:30 The Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase
• 16:10 The Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase
• 16:50 The Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Challenge Cup
• 17:30 The Weatherbys Champion Bumper

Don't forget you can also have a go at entering the Champion Tipster Competition where there's £200 in Free Bets to be won.

13:30 – Ballymore Novices' Hurdle

I'm not one for taking rumours into consideration, but there's been a lot of speculation about how good Impaire Et Passe is. Normally, when the rumours floating around are this strong from the Willie Mullins camp, they rarely get it wrong.

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• 13:30 The Ballymore Novices' Hurdle

14:10 – Brown Advisory Novices' Chase

I think that this race isn't a great renewal, but I do think that Gerri Colombe is a potential Gold Cup horse for next year. He's not the most flashy horse, but he gets the job done and this stamina test is surely going to bring out more improvement. He reminds of a younger version of Native River. By that comment I mean he isn't the quickest horse, he doesn't have the sexy profile, but he will stay the trip, jumps well, and will keep plugging on.

Full race preview:

• 14:10 The Brown Advisory Novices' Chase

14:50 – Coral Cup Handicap Hurdle

Beacon Edge is one of the horses at the top of the weights, carrying 11st 10lbs, but will carry 11st 7lbs on the day due to man of the moment, Michael O'Sullivan taking the ride and taking away 3lbs. This is one of the class horses in the race.

My outside pick of this race is GRAND ROI, trained by Gordon Elliott. If you look at this horse's recent form figures you'll think he has no chance, and I can totally understand that, but I get the feeling there is ability with this horse and this race would've been on Gordon's mind for quite some time.

Full race preview:

• 14:50 The Coral Cup Handicap Hurdle

15:30 – Queen Mother Champion Chase

I am going to give Editeur Du Gite a chance in this. People will think he fluked it last time around at Cheltenham, but I don't think that's the case. I just think he has progressed into a really good horse. He was always a good, hardy handicapper, running well and winning in some big handicaps, but the last two runs have seen him take his form to a whole new level.

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• 15:30 The Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase

16:10 – Cross Country Chase

Even though Delta Work is the favourite, I will be taking him on with a newcomer to the X-Country ranks in the shape of Galvin. This horse is now probably the ‘class' horse in the race, more so than Delta Work as he is the younger horse, and was fourth in last year's Gold Cup.

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• 16:10 The Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase

16:50 – Grand Annual Handicap Chase

The one I've fallen on is the bottom weight, The Last Day. I criticised Global Citizen for being an 11yo, but this is different with this horse. He is lightly raced for his age and I think this race has been the plan for quite a while.

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• 16:50 The Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Challenge Cup

17:30 – Champion Bumper

The one I like is actually the horse which A Dream To Share beat last time out. Fact To File was probably out-speeded by today's market leader when they clashed 39 days ago, but I thought Fact To File was sticking on well to his task and was only starting to get rolling.

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• 17:30 The Weatherbys Champion Bumper

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