Ante Post Review 7 8 November

Cheltenham ante-post eye-catchers: Weekend Review 7-8 November

Slot Betting evaluations the Cheltenham Festival ante-post betting movers and shakers after the weekend motion within the UK and Ireland

The first weekend of November was an thrilling couple of days of jumps motion throughout Britain and Ireland and right here we have our newest have a look at some performers that caught the eye with a view to the in March.

While the action might have been more low-key than the weekend that preceded it or the weekend forward (which contains, some exciting novices caught the attention and a past Festival winner misplaced little in defeat.

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Skelton’s sturdy staff of novice hurdlers

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It’s been an thrilling and vastly promising autumn for coach Dan Skelton and brother Harry, the pairing combining for some eye-catching successes.

They would seem like adding loads of strength and depth to their squad and, on present price of progress, will proceed to be a major risk when the spring festivals roll round.

WILDE ABOUT OSCAR was considered one of a brace of impressive hurdling debutants to win for the Skelton brothers last month at Uttoxeter and on Saturday afternoon he took another step forward.

He as quickly as more went off odds-on for a Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree, regardless of conceding a winners’ penalty and tacking a 2m4f journey for the first time.

A Warwick bumper winner on second start final season, he was not disgraced in a decent Listed Newbury contest in that sphere in February. He did things properly sufficient on leaping bow at Uttoxeter but there was extra to love on Saturday.

He travelled nicely, jumped properly and came home sixteen lengths away from his rivals for an additional facile success. The method he noticed out the race bodes nicely. 

With their share of promising hurdlers, the Skeltons shall be plotting where to goal come Cheltenham in March however, at this remove, a giant value about Wilde About Oscar within the 2m5f Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle might prove a decent shout.

Ga lays down the Law

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There’s not plenty of him but GA LAW is forging a reputation fairly shortly regardless of his diminutive stature. The French-bred was nicely beaten in a juvenile hurdle again within the spring on debut for coach Jamie Snowden but has returned for the new term to go chasing and is making hay.

Saturday’s wide-margin win in the ‘Rising Stars’ Novices’ Chase at Wincanton (2m4f, good) took his record to 3-3 over the larger obstacles and rewarded his coach for elevating the stakes so quickly.

Granted, he was in receipt of weight from both rivals – a stone from odds-on favorite Grand Sancy – however this was a race where local coach Paul Nicholls could be relied on to send a promising recruit into battle and Ga Law brushed Grand Sancy aside with wanton abandon.

He jumped for enjoyable and his cruising speed noticed Harry Cobden’s mount again and again making errors at the obstacles. When their challenge folded, Hurricane Harvey was left to pursue in vain, the winner having already flown.

This was spectacular and means that loads of upside remains for this lightly-raced type in the coming months. His wins have come over trips near two-and-a-half-miles and so the Marsh Novices’ Chase appears a viable Festival goal.

The spectre of Envoi Allen goes to be a long shadow over that race, seemingly, but a lot can go incorrect between now and March.

The method by which Ga Law travelled, jumped and ran via the line at Wincanton suggests the race could be ideal for him and he is one to note at a elaborate price at present.

Don’t desert A Plus Tard yet

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A PLUS TARD was a crushed favourite within the Grade 2 Fortria Chase at Navan on Sunday for Henry De Bromhead and Rachael Blackmore. 

The odds-on jolly was having to work hard a way for him and while he quickened between fences, his efforts over the obstacles have been sluggish and price more ground that he was able to salvage on the level as Castlegrace Paddy ran out a determined winner.

It’s the second yr in a row A Plus Tard has managed solely second within the Navan race, although this was clearly not as sturdy a renewal as the one Ballyoisin won final 12 months. Still, A Plus Tard has a behavior of defeat on his return from a break.

He recovered last season to take the Grade 1 scalp of Chacun Pour Soi at Leopardstown over Christmas (2m1f, soft) after which he was put away till the Ryanair at Cheltenham the place he completed a battling third behind Min and Saint Calvados having began as 7/4 favorite.

His most noteworthy display remains the rout he dished out at Cheltenham in 2019 when landing the Close Brothers Novices’ Handicap Chase beneath Blackmore. 

He hasn’t had much racing thus far however, with De Bromhead, he’s obtained the proper man to iron out that jumping technique and, in fact, it probably doesn’t require lots of work. 

Still relatively early days then and each those Navan setbacks have come on floor with ‘heavy’ in the description on his seasonal bow.

Given the very quick price he went off for the Ryanair last term, A Plus Tard is one to bear in mind with improvement expected as the season wears on again.

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