The Student Punter

  It’s been a while since my last post on here but with Cheltenham creeping closer I thought I’d return with a couple of posts before the festival. I’ll aim to post a preview for each day of the festival the night before racing but for now I’ll have a long range look at a few interesting runners. Ryanair Chase In terms of build up and anticipation it’s probably fair to say the Ryanair Chase is pretty low down the pecking order when compared with the exciting novice division and the Champion Chase, but I think there’s some value to be had in this market. I should start this preview with some shameless after timing - I am sitting on a docket of 10/1 on  Allaho  which I placed prior to the Dublin Racing Festival, so this will be a fresh look at the race from current prices at the time of writing. Min ’s disappointing run at Leopardstown blew what was already a competitive looking renewal wide open. That was an uncharacteristic bad round of jumping and the fact that it led to...