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1.55 Pertemps Network Final Handicap Hurdle

Thursday 18 March  |  Age: 5yo+  |  Prize: £100,000

The Pertemps Final is another typically competitive handicap race at the Cheltenham Festival. This Grade 3 (formerly a listed race) is run on the New Course over three miles.

Voice of Value's Tips

So far this year the run up to this race has been a series of disappointments for me.  

Initially I was with Honest Vic but he was scratched at the five day stage and then I jumped ship to Dalton Highway who has now been scratched at the final two day declaration stage.

It's money back for me on both of those and back to the drawing board we go.

I think now is the time to keep things simple. The most likely winner to me is THE BOSSES OSCAR and I'm amazed we're still getting 7-1 about him at the time of writing.

They have jocked up young Jordan Gainford who by all accounts is a decent young claimer and will take a very handy 7lbs off the weight after the handicapper wasn't too kind.

That moves him down from top weight to the middle of the pack.  The horse was given a big weight for good reason – he has Cheltenham form (only beaten 2.5 lengths in the Martin Pipe last year) and has been campaigned for this race all season whilst finishing in the top two on all three runs.

I would make him a much shorter price for this so we can have a cheeky each way bet with the extra places available. I don't think I need to complicate things any more than that.

Voice of Value's Pertemps Network Final Tip

  • The Bosses Oscar 2pt ew at 7-1 with Paddy Power (5 places)
Alan Thomson's Tips

CHAMPAGNE PLATINUM caught the eye at Haydock when given a lot to do. A mistake two out cooked his goose but the seven-year-old grey looks well enough treated to get involved for the JP McManus/Nicky Henderson combo.

He was sent off joint favourite to land last year’s Kim Muir Chase (seventh) but seems happier horse racing over the smaller obstacles.

The Leopardstown qualifier over Christmas is usually a reliable barometer and runner-up The Bosses Oscar is fancied to overturn form with surprise winner Dandy Mag, well beaten on his next start.

The Bosses Oscar looked a bit unlucky when hampered (fifth) in last season’s 2m 4f Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle and this longer distance will be right up his street.  Denise Foster is taking 7lb off his back by booking inexperienced conditional rider Jordan Gainford, which is a risky tactic.

Mrs Milner finished fourth in that Leopardstown festive qualifier but finds herself 12lb better off with The Bosses Oscar, which makes the mare of interest. She also boasts course form, having chased home On The Blind Side here last November.

Best of the home team may be Imperial Alcazar. He has gone up 8lb for bagging the Warwick qualifier – a race which has gone to previous Final winners Holywell and Sire Du Berlais – but that rise may under-estimate his talent. Soft ground is perfect.

Southfield Harvest, a doughty stayer, possesses plenty of solid form, especially on testing ground.

Spiritofthegames has performed very well in the past at the Festival and could hit the frame at tasty odds.

Thommo's Pertemps Network Final Tip

  • Champagne Platinum 6/1 (Casumo)
Pertemps Network Final Racecard
Distance: 2m 7f 213y
Type: Hurdle
Class: 1
Track: Turf
No
Silks
Runner
19
Perfect Man
6-41574

5
Imperial Alcazar
1221-91

10
Storm Arising
430-121

7
Copperhead
11F-PP5

15
Getaround
1-14415

24
Kansas City Chief
R6-6373

11
Champagne Platinum
5437-32

14
Anything Will Do
123655

3
Brinkley
731-P11

26
Mr Harp
423122

25
Milliner
129/53

13
No Comment
5FF-52F

17
Redford Road
0-38374

21
Storm Goddess
334145

20
Bushypark
111101

16
Mrs Milner
2-1324F

1
The Bosses Oscar
125-122

23
Everglow
3-52173

9
Spiritofthegames
26-2482

2
Unowhatimeanharry
4250-10

22
Potters Hedger
01-2915

18
Come On Teddy
241-413

8
Keeper Hill
3-44533

12
Southfield Harvest
1/21-223

6
Ask Dillon
0-F4224

4
Dandy Mag
450-810

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