Find the best of the bets

Ahead of this week’s meeting at Cheltenham, Hayley O’Connor delivers a breakdown of the betting on National Hunt racing’s premier festival.

Douvan: favourite for the Grade One Supreme Novices Hurdle
Douvan: favourite for the Grade One Supreme Novices Hurdle

Unlike Wimbledon, however, you don’t have to wait a few rounds for it to get interesting, as the curtain raiser is the Grade One Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, a fast and furious two mile contest where the young guns go to battle.

This, and the Champion Hurdle later that day, are historically Ireland’s most successful, and the betting suggests we’ll be first off the mark again.

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