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Well can you adam and eve it, the 2026 Cheltenham Festival is almost upon us! As excitement reaches it's peak, we dig into each of the 5 championship races as well as share a best bet each for each of the four days.

Thank you for listening along with us this season and specifically with these antepost angle episodes. We've had a great time recording them and really hope you've enjoyed them and found some interesting angles for certain races and also some helpful punting perspectives for the biggest Festival of them all.

Good luck next week whatever you back and enjoy the visual feast that lies ahead.

Cheers,

Ben & Bruno

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After a good few of our handicap chase selections have shortened significantly over the last few days, we're back with a deep dive into each of the 5 handicap hurdles. We look at the ideal profiles for each race and create some nice tight shortlists for with suggestions of whether there's antepost value or if it's a case of bet on the day. Patience and self-control will pay off atthe Festival, so don't feel compelled to lunge in unless you're convinced there's value in the current price. One or two from your shortlist can look a lot more attractive on the day once you know the final field, jockey, ground, etc.

Enjoy!

Ben & Bruno

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This Tuesday marked the official entry stage for the 2026 Cheltenham Festival Handicaps and so this week we have dedicated all our efforts to trawling through all 7 handicap chases (and 268 associated entries!) to create shortlists for each race, including some useful trends that can help bring a shortlist into sharper focus. We also discuss which horses to back now and which may offer similar value on the day.

This was a lot of fun! We hope you enjoy and agree with some of the selections!

Ben & Bruno

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We're back after a week's post-DRF recuperation and looking ahead to a good Saturday card at Ascot, where frankly the Grade 1 Ascot Chase and Jonbon's latest bid to finish either 1st or 2nd is the least of our punting worries. We find a pair of tasty naps in the handicaps and highlight a well bred bumper runner that's very familiar to those of us that can think back to 2018...

Enjoy the show and let's find some winners!

Ben & Bruno

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All 15 DRF races covered for your listening and punting pleasure. Let's just hope they pass the inspection on Saturday morning!

We have some strong fancies, particulalry in the Spring Juvenile, the 2m handicap chase and the Irish Gold Cup itself for the Saturday. Then on Sunday we're confident we've found the winner of the mares handicap hurdle, just as we did on our first visit to the DRF back in 2019, along with the Leopardstown Handicap Chase, the mares bumper and the Irish Champion hurdle!

Enjoy,

Ben & Bruno

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Well there's little doubt this is one of the best Cheltenham Trials Days in recent memory and SURELY we will have at least one Festival winner on show tomorrow, if not more. We get stuck in to 8 races, including one which is one of the best pointers to Festival success of any race, anywhere in recent history!

What a day to look forward to.

Enjoy!

Ben & Bruno

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Hello again Antepost fiends!

We're back for our second of this season's Antepost Angle series and this time we're completing the novice hurdle set with the Mares Novices Hurdle and the Triumph Hurdle, along with the Champion Bumper too (which surprisingly yielded a strong antepost fancy).

The mares race has not been one for favourites (nor are we convinced this year will be different), so is there value now or is it better to wait for value on the day, or both? We discuss. The Triumph is fascinating with new additions to the scene post-Christmas and one or two very highly touted horses yet to show themselves but possibly running over the next two weeks. We create a shortlist of those and give more than a nod to the importance of the Grade 1 at the Dublin Racing Festival. Which we also do in the context of the Champion Bumper, a race that has often been won in recent seasons by a DRF bumper winner.

As ever, the plan with this series is to help create a shortlist of horses for the big races in March. We believe it's not always about taking the value now but about taking a position on a horse or group of horses early enough so we can be nimble as the markets develop in the coming weeks. Horses may shorten after the DRF but they can shorten more in the days following so early movers can be rewarded!

Enjoy!

Ben & Bruno

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It's the end of the working week and spirits are in the sky, as are hopes of a cracking mid-January weekend of jumps racing from Ascot and Windsor. This week we're focusing on Ascot's Clarence House Chase meeting card, including some excellent racing away from the flagship Grade 1.

We pick out a couple of strong fancies in the handicaps and Mr AI himself is back from his winter cyber break with his selections, including a bold nap!

Enjoy.

Ben & Bruno

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