Cheltenham Tips: 3.40 Glenfarclas Cross Country Steeple Chase

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3.40 Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase Tips

Wednesday 16 March | Age: 5yo+ | Prize: £65,000

The Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase in a National Hunt Chase, open to horses who are aged five years and older and run over a distance of about of three miles and six furlongs.

This is a race that gets a lot of stick from some quarters but I absolutely love watching it.

The horse who take to it really enjoy the test and it's great fun to watch them tackle the various unorthodox obstacles.

Easysland will be the short priced favourite after a fantastic performance last year and whilst I respect him there is perhaps a suspicion that he wants soft ground and it looks like it might not be soft come Wednesday.

I don't have a strong fancy for the race but the one that does interest me is previous Cheltenham winner LE BREUIL who readers might remember won the gruelling National Hunt Chase in 2019 that led to the race conditions being modified such was the slow motion finish.

I listened to Ben Pauling talk about the horse on a preview recently and he said that that race in 2019 ‘half broke' the horse and it has taken him all of this time to get him back into some form.

Even more interestingly he mentioned that they had taken Le Breuil schooling over the cross country course and that afterwards a member of the ground staff at Cheltenham had called to ask which horse it was who had been schooling because they all wanted to back him such was his performance over the obstacles.

Now all these things need to be taken with a pinch of salt and I wouldn't normally be one to lump on a horse making their debut over this unique course but in this case the 20-1 looks very appealing.

Paddy Power and Betfair are paying 4 places each way so that looks the best plan to me. I also have the added bonus here that if this all goes horribly wrong I can just blame Ben Pauling.

Voice of Value's Glenfarclas Cross Country Steeple Chase Tips

• Le Breuil 1pt ew at 20-1 with Paddy Power or Betfair (both 4 places)

There was 2021 Gold Cup talk about EASYLAND after he routed the Glenfarclas Chase field by 17 lengths last year.

The French challenger has run only once since, finishing fourth when giving away lumps of weight in a handicap here in November, and is favoured by today’s race conditions.

Last year’s runner-up Tiger Roll, out of sorts so far this campaign, will need to bounce back, while Le Breuil, winner of the 2019 National Hunt Chase, can give an honourable account at big odds for Ben Pauling.

Thommo's Glenfarclas Cross Country Steeple Chase Tip

• Easyland 4/5 (Casumo)

No

Silks

Runner

Jockey/Trainer

Odds

6

Hogan's Height
11/715-P

J: G Sheehan
T: Jamie Snowden

7/4

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13

Tiger Roll
11/52-P6

J: K M Donoghue
T: Mrs D Foster

10/3

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14

Vivas
50-2P5P

J: Charlie Deutsch
T: C E Longsdon

6/1

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3

Balko Des Flos
44-4764

J: Rachael Blackmore
T: H De Bromhead

12/1

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1

Alpha Des Obeaux
3-595PP

J:
T: Mrs D Foster

14/1

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4

Defi Des Carres
51F-62P

J: Harry Bannister
T: C J Mann

28/1

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5

Easysland
11111-4

J: Felix de Giles
T: D Cottin

33/1

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8

Kingswell Theatre
6P5P-17

J: T Scudamore
T: M Scudamore

33/1

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10

Out Sam
P-F54F8

J:
T: Mrs D Foster

33/1

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11

Potters Corner
011-37P

J: Nick Scholfield
T: Christian Williams

33/1

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7

Kings Temptation
111P65

J: Bryan Carver
T: B I Case

66/1

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2

Artic Pearl
1/U44-05

J:
T: M Brassil

100/1

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9

Le Breuil
50-4334

J: Kielan Woods
T: B Pauling

NR

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12

Some Neck
PF-6310

J: R Johnson
T: J C McConnell

NR

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