See below Andy Newton’s Cheltenham racing tips on Trials Day 2024 from ALL eight races that include the Cotswold Chase and the rearranged Clarence House Chase. Plus, there are also five races being shown LIVE on ITV.
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Cheltenham Racing Tips For Trials Day 2024: Can Anything Beat Jonbon?
The ITV Racing team are spoiling us this week with three races at Doncaster, plus they are also covering FIVE races from the classy Cheltenham Trials Day Meeting this Saturday.
Prestbury Park will race for the last time before the Cheltenham Festival in March and with many horses looking to enhance their credentials there will be clues a-plenty on offer this weekend.
The Cheltenham going is currently described as ‘good-to-soft’ and with the UK weather hotter than the last few weeks there are no reported issues on that front.
Clarence House Chase Added To Trials Day
We also se last week’s cancelled Clarence House Chase slotted into the Cheltenham card – just like last year – with the Ascot race called off last week due to a frozen track – full marks to the BHA here.
Jonbon will be the red-hot favourite with the best UK horse racing betting sites for the race to make it 8-from-9 over fences before heading to the Champion Chase at the Festival in March.
On the card there is also the Cotswold Chase, where last year’s winner Ahoy Senor looks to be become the first back-to-back winner of the race since it was first run in 1980.
While we also see the return of the Unibet Hurdle (International), plus the Cleeve Hurdle, which is often a good guide towards the Stayers’ Hurdle at the Festival.
A race Paisley Park has won three times in the last four years and is back for more.
There’s a lot to like, so let’s take a look at ALL eight races and give you our best Cheltenham racing tips on Trials Day.
Plus, you can also find Andy Newton’s popular ‘Lay of the Day’ pick for today here on is article feed. plus he’s got all the key Cheltenham Trials Day trends too.
Cheltenham Racing Tips On Saturday 27th January 2024
12:05 JCB Triumph Trial Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 2) (Registered As The Finesse) (GBB Race) Cl1 (4yo) 2m1f RTV
This should be between the two unbeaten runners over hurdles – Sir Gino and Burdett Road. Both look to have massive futures with Sir Gino impressing over Christmas at Kempton. However, having already won at Cheltenham (watch below) the nod goes to the James Owen-trained BURDETT ROAD, who is already high up in the market with the best online betting sites for the Triumph Hurdle on the final day of the Festival in March.
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12:40 Timeform Novices’ Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Cl2 (5yo+) 2m4½f RTV
Stage Star won this race last year and then went onto win the Turners Novices’ Chase at the Festival, so the winner should certainly be noted in the coming months.
It looks a tad more competitive this year though with the big players like Blow Your Wad, Theatre Man, Es Perfecto and Persian Time in the race. However, with 80% of the last 10 winners aged 7 or 8, last year’s winner trainer Paul Nicholls looks to have another big chance – this time with GINNY’S DESTINY.
This 8 year-old is also the only course winner in the field, having won at the December Meeting last month. He beat the useful Grey Dawning that day by 3/4 of a length and even though many felt the second would have won that day had he not fluffed the second to last, it was still a top effort from the Nicholls runner.
That form has also since been franked with Grey Dawning winning at Warwick recently and despite having top-weight of 12st here, Ginny’s Destiny looks the sort to still have more to come (just 3 runs over fences).
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1:15 Paddy Power Cheltenham Countdown Podcast Handicap Chase (Premier Handicap) (GBB Race) Cl1 (5yo+) 2m4½f ITV
Another tough race to unravel here with 13 runners that all seem to have claims. These include the runner-up of the December Gold Cup and last year’s winner – Il Ridoto, who is up 5lbs more for that recent run, and also last time out winners Victtorino and Excello.
However, with 11 of the last 19 winners aged 8 or 9 and also 47% having 10-7 or less to carry, then the Alan King runner – GRANDEUR D’AME (e/w), who ticks both stats, is chanced.
This 8 year-old was a fair 4th in the already mentioned December Gold Cup – beaten 10 lengths – but has an 8lb weight pull this time. He’s had 42 days t get over that run and with it only being his second outing since last May can strip fitter this time too.
Of the rest, Venetia’s Easy As That will like the drop back in trip after not staying last time and also getting hampered by a faller. Is down another 2lbs from his last run and starting to look well-treated again.
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1:50 Paddy Power Cotswold Chase (Grade 2) (GBB Race) Cl1 (5yo+) 3m1½f ITV
Ahoy Senor is a decent horse on his day, but also one I can’t seem to get right. He won this race last year well but hasn’t tasted success since and we’ve also never have a back-to-back Cotswold Chase winner. He’s also run to poor races this season in the Charlie Hall Chase and the Coral Gold Cup so is overlooked.
Royale Pagaille won the Betfair Chase well last time, but we all know he’s a much better horse at Haydock. The jury is out on The Real Whacker since he beat Gerri Colombe in at the Festival last season. He was pulled up here in the Paddy Power, albeit with a bit weight, and was well back in the King George (4th, would have been 5th if Shishkin didn’t unseat Nico).
Full marks to Willie Mullins for bringing over Capodanno, but the horse just doesn’t win enough for me – just one win in his last eight.
Datalrightgino and Stay Away Fay The Ones To Beat
So that leaves us with DATSALRIGHTGINO and STAY AWAY FAY. The former was a top winner of the Coral Gold Cup (Hennessy to the older readers) and despite this being a step up and outside handicap company knows how to win and is also a proven course winner. He can go well for the Jamie Snowden yard, with the in-form Gavin Sheehan riding.
Then Stay Away Fay is the improver in the race. He landed the Albert Bartlett at the Festival last season and is 2-from-2 since going chasing.
Stay Away Fay also saw off the useful Giovinco at Sandown last month in gutsy fashion over 3m (watch below) and looks a staying sort that will love this extra 1 1/2 furlongs. The 7 year-old can give Paul Nicholls his sixth Cotswold Chase win, with his last Frodon in 2019 and his first See More Business back in 1998.
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2:25 Clarence House Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race) Cl1 (5yo+) 2m½f ITV
It will be the biggest shock of the day if JONBON can’t win the rearranged Clarence House Chase. The Nicky Henderson chaser is 7-from-8 over fences and with last week’s Ascot race called off won’t now face the only horse that’s beaten him over the bigger obstacles – El Fabiolo, who lowered his colours in the Arkle last season.
Jonbon was last seen winning the Tingle Creek Chase (watch below) at Sandown in December – beating former Arkle winner Edwardstone by 2 3/4 lengths.
Last year’s Clarence House winner Editeur Du Gite can do best of the rest, but may just set this race up for Jonbon from the front.
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3:00 Unibet Hurdle (Registered As The International Hurdle) (Grade 2) (GBB Race) Cl1 (4yo+) 2m1f ITV
It’s nice to see the International Hurdle back, which was last staged in 2021 at the Cheltenham December Meeting. And strangely we’ve got that winner running again – Guard Your Dreams – who has only raced four times since. This Nigel Twiston-Davies runner has been off the track for 660-days but is remarkably still only aged 8. It would be one hell of a training effort to see him win again.
Rubaud saw the back of Constitution Hill in the Christmas Hurdle last time and so this will be easier, while the useful mare Love Envoi has a bit to prove after running below par in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Sandown last month.
Therefore, the safer call here looks to be last year’s Triumph Hurdle (watch below) winner – LOSSIEMOUTH – who comes over from the Willie Mullins yard. Paul Townend also makes the trip over, and this talented grey mare will also get a handy allowance from the boys in the race.
She’s 5-from-6 over hurdles, with her only blot coming at the Dublin Racing Festival in the Spring Juvenile Hurdle a year ago, but has bounced back since and we know the Cheltenham track suits. She looks to have a big season ahead and is already well-fancied for the Mares’ Hurdle at the Festival.
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3:35 McCoy Contractors Cleeve Hurdle (Grade 2) (GBB Race) Cl1 (5yo+) 3m ITV
2022 Grand National winner Noble Yeats is an interesting runner over hurdles, in what will only be his third try over the smaller obstacles but was also a beaten odds on favourite over the sticks at Limerick last month.
Champ isn’t getting any younger at 12 and nor is the three-time winner of this race Paisley Park, who continues to defy his age with narrow seconds in the Long Walk and Long Distance Hurdles this season.
Botox Has was only 4th in this last year, but the horse that was runner-up 12 months ago was DASHEL DRASHER and he looks the most solid to give his running. Another old-timer at 11 but has hit the top three in all-bar-two of his 16 career runs over hurdles.
Was also a close second in the Stayers’ Hurdle at the Festival last season and took the Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury earlier this campaign (watch below) to show he still loves his racing. His overall track form over hurdles reads – 1-2-2-2.
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4:10 SSS Super Alloys Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 2) (Registered As The Classic Novices’ Hurdle) (GBB Race) Cl1 (4yo+) 2m4½f RTV
If the other big favourites on the day all win, then by the time we get to the final race, the the Harry Fry hotpot GIDLEIGH PARK could go off very short.
He’s gone into many a notebook with impressive wins already at Exeter (watch below) and Newbury, with the most recent particularly eye-catching when romping away by 9 lengths.
That was the first time he’s been stepped up in trip and despite taking a bit of a hold in that Newbury race, seemed to get better the further they went and based on that looks the sort that will relish the stiff Cheltenham finish.
On that evidence it’s hard to get away from him and he looks worth sticking with before heading to the Festival for possibly the Baring Bingham Novices’ Hurdle.
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