In the first of a series of Cheltenham ante post tips, SportsLens experts give their value punts on big races for the Festival. They say five-year-olds don’t have a brilliant record in the Champion Hurdle, yet eight have been placed since 2007 and the search for each way value behind or against red-hot favourite Honeysuckle should not discount them.
Between a quarter and a third of this year’s 23 Champion Hurdle entries come from this age bracket. The ante post market has an as you were look about it with three of the first four in the betting the 1-2-3 from last season.