Cheltenham Festival 2011

[Dave Cooper please]

Well, I can safely say that so far the tips on this thread have been utter shite!

Any horses for me to avoid tomorrow?

[cheltenhamlion]

I have cancelled it. I am in no mood for my festival this year because of our league position.

[Rico]

Any tips for Thursday?

[taylorsworkrate]

Confirmed that Time For Rupert broke a blood vessel.  So probably shows the class and fight in the horse to finish 5th. (NOT THAT IT GETS ME ANY MONEY)

Backed First Lieutenant and Beshabar each way, so again broke around even.  I'm hoping Big Bucks will push me into the black considerably.

[Rotterdam]

I had a tip for Call the Police yesterday - useless.

[Bosco81]

Big Bucks is my favourite horse so got to stay with him again today, he's done me proud over the years.

I've done a patent today on a few favourites, Wishfull Thinking, Poquelin and Junior.

Playing with the bookies money today as I had First Lieutenant, Sizing Europe and Cheltenian yesterday, even if I lost a bit on Time for Rupert.

[taylorsworkrate]

I had a tip for Call the Police yesterday - useless.

They steamed into that and it went off at 7/2.  Which was a crazy price considering the large field.

[taylorsworkrate]

Big Bucks is my favourite horse so got to stay with him again today, he's done me proud over the years.

I've done a patent today on a few favourites, Wishfull Thinking, Poquelin and Junior.

Playing with the bookies money today as I had First Lieutenant, Sizing Europe and Cheltenian yesterday, even if I lost a bit on Time for Rupert.

Big Bucks is a huge price at slightly over evens.  For me the best horse in training, with the perfect jockey on board.  I think Ruby Walsh rides Big Bucks better than any other of the top class horses he rides. 

Grand Crus is hugely talented and his time will come.  I do not believe it will be this year though.  I'm of the opinion that Grand Crus needs a bit of give in the ground.

Other fancys today are Loosen My Load in the 1:30, and Gauvain at odds of around 14/1 in the Ryanair.

Big Bucks will make or break my festival punting wise though

[Bosco81]

Big Bucks is a huge price at slightly over evens.  For me the best horse in training, with the perfect jockey on board.  I think Ruby Walsh rides Big Bucks better than any other of the top class horses he rides. 

Grand Crus is hugely talented and his time will come.  I do not believe it will be this year though.  I'm of the opinion that Grand Crus needs a bit of give in the ground.

Other fancys today are Loosen My Load in the 1:30, and Gauvain at odds of around 14/1 in the Ryanair.

Big Bucks will make or break my festival punting wise though

Grands Crus is drifting a bit to 4/1 which is about right, Big Bucks is a worthy favourite.

I went a preview night last sunday and Tom Segal (Pricewise) tipped up Loosen my Load and Daryl Jacob liked Gauvain.

[Pete3206]

I cannot wait for that first pint of Guinness tomorrow. How I love Gold Cup day!

[taylorsworkrate]

Big Bucks stunning again today.

Fair play to Grand Crus, who I thought ran a fantastic race and is a special animal in its own right.  Could be a Gold Cup horse in a year or two.

Big Bucks unreal though.  Could easily win another 2 or 3 of these as I can't see it going chasing.  Ruby Walsh faultless(well apart from dropping his whip).

As regards the Gold Cup, I'm not going to get too involved betting wise.  I would absolutely love it if Kauto Star comes back to win (had 20 quid at 12/1 after the King George aswell).  He's been a phenomonal horse and has given me a couple of great paydays.

I think if Imperial Commander comes back to top form he will win though.  Should be a fascinating race.

[andyaston]

Anybody else got ideas on whos going to win the Gold Cup tomorrow?

[VillaZogmariner]

See how my bets have gone this week I can tell you that it's not going to be Kauto Star!

[Bosco81]

The gold cup is wide open, there are doubts about all the horses so I'm going for a couple of each way outsiders, what a friend and midnight chase

[Brend'Watkins]

My first ever trip to this event yesterday.  I really enjoyed it.  Great weather, great atmosphere, great craic and it wasn't too packed.  I have never scrutinized details about horses before to such an extent and I don't know why I did as I hadn't a clue what I was looking for.  I opted to go with "expert opinions" for the first few races...no joy at all.  I then went for the more fruitful decision to put each way bets on jockeys in claret and blue.  The day gave me a loss of £70, I was expecting far worse.

I will go again next year.