Ollie Gedge Racing

 2026 Cheltenham Festival Preview - Day 4 13.20 - JCB Triumph Hurdle The 4th and final day of the Cheltenham Festival kicks off with the Triumph Hurdle which see's the Willie Mullins pair Proactif & Selma De Vary at the top of the market. Whilst both of them seem to have a big chance I'm just about going to side with the Mare Selma De Vary here. She's only had 1 start for Willie Mullins since arriving at Closutton in November but she ran incredibly well to finish 2nd to Narciso Has that day at the DRF and will most likely improve massively for that run & could be a huge player here. Willie holds all the aces in this race once again with 9 runners in the field so it's obviously a huge positive that stable jockey Paul Townend has chosen to pick her over others such as Macho Man who was 2nd the Proactif on his only start. There are a couple of UK challengers in here with the likes of Minella Study & Maestro Conti but I just think the Irish will be way too stro...

 2026 Cheltenham Festival Preview - Day 3 13.20 - Mares Novice Hurdle Another big field novice hurdle to open up day 3 of the festival and I'll be hoping favourite backers get off to a good start here as I'm all over Bambino Fever for Willie Mullins. Last years Champion Bumper winner had a surprising poor start to life over hurdles when she was beaten by Oldschool Outlaw at Naas first time out but I was happy to forgive her being that it was her first run of the season with Willie's Mares always coming on for their 2nd run. She then went to Fairyhouse where she hosed up by 12 lengths (albeit going off at 1/12) however she looked much more herself that day and has been kept fresh for this. I think this is one of Willies best novices and wouldn't have looked out of place in this years supreme which leads me to believe that we can get day 3 off to a flyer! I'll give a small ew chance to Carigmoornaspruce for Declan Queally based on the form of her last run where she wa...

 2026 Cheltenham Festival Preview - Day 2 13.20 - Turners Novice Hurdle We kick off Wednesday's action with yet another deep Novice hurdle with 22 runners going post which is really good to see. No Drama this end heads the market at around 4/1 but I've been quite keen on wanting to take him on and that's exactly what I'll be doing. As impressive as he's been this season his form doesn't add up to much and he still has to defy the trend that Challow Hurdle winners don't have a very good record in the race - Although this was broken last campaign with The New Lion coming out on top. The one I'll be taking him on with is King Rasko Grey for Willie Mullins & again I'll be using that form line with Talk The Talk & Ballyfad as a guide as I think that's the best piece of form from any Novice hurdle this season. Talk the Talk did slightly let down the form from that race today in the supreme but I do think the step up in trip will see him at his...

2026 Cheltenham Festival Preview  - Day 1 All the talk is over and the 2026 Cheltenham Festival is finally here! We've 7 races per day to preview where I'll be giving a selection in every race along with a list of my best bets for the day. If you've followed my Ante-Post series this year you'll know we've a few good darts to throw already but in this preview I'll be going through all 28 races in the hope to find you all a few winners, So let's get started! 13.20 - Supreme Novice Hurdle  We kick off the meeting with one of the most open Supremes' in recent years with quite a few runners holding solid claims. Having said that I am quite keen on taking on the favourite in Old Park Star here. Although he's been visually very impressive on his last 3 starts I do have a slight question mark on the depth of his form compared to a few of the Irish raiders and at odds of 9/4 I think his price holds very little value now.  The one I'm going to take him on ...