Stay Away Fay
Brown Advisory Novices Chase, March 13
5-1 with BoyleSports

The Brown Advisory is the novice chase in which British-trained horses have had most success in recent times. The Real Whacker kept the prize at home last year and it is the similarly likeable Stay Away Fay who is fancied to deliver Paul Nicholls another success in the race.
Going from the Albert Bartlett as a novice hurdler to this race the following year is a well-worn path. Monkfish did the double in 2020 and 2021, while Minella Indo had very nearly done the same 12 months earlier. Stay Away Fay came out on top in last year’s Albert Bartlett and has looked to have bottomless stamina in his runs over fences this season.
He will run in the Cotswolds Chase on Saturday. I am not worried about him running in the Gold Cup, even if he wins. It is not Nicholls’ style. Although if he does continue his rise against some of the big boys of the division, expect Stay Away Fay to be a much shorter price for the Brown Advisory.

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Teahupoo
Stayers’ Hurdle, March 14
9-2 with BoyleSports

The Stayers’ Hurdle market is a real mix this season. We have a French champion in Theleme, progressive second-season hurdlers like Irish Point and Crambo as well as the usual mix of potential switchers from either fences or shorter trips.
But to me the likeliest winner has been there for the taking all along. In a soft-ground running last year, the then-six-year-old Teahupoo travelled potently through the race but just took too long to respond to pressure. He plugged on eventually, giving hope that he stays or at the very least would another day on less-testing ground.
Since then, Teahupoo has shown his class by downing Impaire Et Passe in the Hatton’s Grace at Fairyhouse. He will go to Cheltenham fresh and with stronger claims than any of his rivals of lifting the Stayers’ Hurdle crown.

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Burdett Road
Triumph Hurdle, March 15
7-2 with BoyleSports

You are simply not meant to win at Cheltenham ridden the way Burdett Road was in November. He spent the first half of the race anchored out the back of the field but cut through effortlessly between the last two flights before extending away up the run-in.
You would have struggled to believe the performance was quite as good as met the eye. Yet Burdett Road has the class to help you suspend disbelief. He won at Royal Ascot in 2023, showing the sort of level that would entitle him to a run in the Champion Hurdle. You might want to have a few quid on him for that race, too, but far more likely is that he will run in the Triumph Hurdle. If he wins his slated trial on Saturday, he could be a prohibitive favourite.

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L’Homme Presse
Cheltenham Gold Cup, March 15
10-1 with BoyleSports

I can understand those who were not wholly impressed by L’Homme Presse in the Fleur de Lys Chase at Lingfield on Sunday. For the vast majority of the race, he was behind the bridle or threatened to be. Yet there were a couple of moments, when he swept past on the run to three out and when he extended for one reminder from Charlie Deutsch, that showed the L’Homme Presse of old was still in there.
After 13 months off, you can forgive him taking a while to have his class teased out of him. And this was not some hack he was beating, it was Protektorat. That horse has finished third and fifth in two Gold Cups, won a Betfair Chase and posted a borderline Grade 1-class performance on his previous outing. To do to him what L’Homme Presse did, in spite of some clear ring-rustiness, marks him out as the biggest threat to Galopin Des Champs in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

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