Cheltenham Day 1 Lucky 15 Tip & 100/1 Accumulator for Tuesday 14th March

The Cheltenham Festival is here and we have put together our tipsters best day 1 betting tips to make up a big odds Cheltenham day 1 lucky 15 tip.

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Cheltenham Lucky 15 Tip for Today

1.30pm – Il Etait Temps (5/1)

2.10pm – Jonbon (7/4)

4.10pm – Maries Rock (5/2)

5.30pm – Gaillard Du Mensil (Evens)

ACCUMULATOR ODDS – 100/1 with Betfred.

 

1.30 Cheltenham

IL ETAIT TEMPS (6/1 with Betfred) arguably has the single-best run from a two-mile novice this season and I think he is the bet in the race. Eye-catching as a juvenile hurdler, including a fifth in last season’s Triumph, Il Etait Temps has looked a different horse this season. He is still an exuberant type, but he has started to settle better and subsequently fulfil his potential. He placed behind Facile Vega at Christmas, which was a fair run in itself, finishing five lengths ahead of the smart Ashroe Diamond.

Sent off 14/1 for the Grade 1 Tatterstalls Ireland Novice Hurdle, Il Etait Temps absolutely relished the relentless gallop and came there swinging entering the straight. Danny Mullins asked him to extend, and he shot clear to record a nine and half-length success. I think this performance has been overlooked. The Supreme tends to be run at a good pace and High Definition will no doubt ensure they go hard from the start.

Il Etait Temps clearly thrives in behind a furious gallop and I believe he is extremely likely to get one here. He is clearly an improving horse; he doesn’t have question marks against his name, and I think he represents an excellent each way bet. I struggle to see him outside the first three.

 

2.10 Cheltenham

9 runners go to post here but it’s hard to look past the theory that it’s a 2 horse race. JONBON and El Fabiolo are both favourites depending where you shop and bookies cannot split the pair. Only separated by a neck at Aintree last season over hurdles, the top 2 will now fight it out over the bigger obstacles where the jumping will play a huge part in the outcome. Jonbon was coming off a hard race at Cheltenham but still managed to outbattle El Fabiolo who was only having his second start for Willie Mullins. A case could be made for both horses based on hurdle’s form and the improvement they were likely to get this season but I’m just about in the Jonbon camp here.

With very little between them I’m siding with the more experienced horse who is a year older and has far greater race course experience both over hurdles and fences. Jonbon’s 3 wins over fences will have question marks over what he has beat and how unimpressive he was the last day when beating Calico at Warwick but I think he gets the better of El Fabiolo again.

El Fabiolo might turn out to be the better horse but his jumping hasn’t been great and with no festival experience to his name, I have my doubts. You can’t argue that he has the best form going into the race and that his win in the Irish Arkle was as impressive as we’ve seen. However, he is prone to a mistake or 2 (over fences and hurdles before) and with 2 more fences in the English Arkle over the Irish Arkle, I think that will disadvantage El Fabiolo.

Winning at Cheltenham can often come down to fine margins and I’m happy to go with the better jumper with previous Cheltenham experience to his name.

 

4.10 Cheltenham

A fantastic renewal of the Mares Hurdle awaits us this year with the last 3 Champion Hurdle winners turning up here. Honeysuckle and Epatante have been scared away from the Champion Hurdle by Constitution Hill but that race’s loss is this race’s gain. Add them 2 to last year’s winner, last year’s Mares Novice winner and many other horses who have graded form and we have ourselves the highest quality Mares Hurdle to date.

You can make a case for many here but just like in the Ultima, I’m siding with last year’s winner, MARIES ROCK. Talked of in the last couple of weeks, as a horse who could step up to 3m to take on the boys in the Stayers Hurdle, she has another serious chance of winning this again. Only seen once this season when a very impressive winner on NYD in the Relkeel, last year’s winner is the one to beat. She stayed on strongly in that Relkeel just as she did in last year’s race and I cannot see how she doesn’t eat that hill again and win. The softer ground has probably improved her chances as stamina will play a big factor in this. The soft ground will also ask questions of her 2 market rivals in Epatante and Honeysuckle. I’ve been impressed with Maries Rock’s last 4 outings and she has all the form in the book over this trip/course to defend her crown.

 

5:30 Cheltenham 

The finale on Day 1 is the Well Child National Hunt Challenge Trophy over 3m6f and it’s the turn of the amateur jockeys.

You’d have to expect GAILLARD DU MESNIL (Evens with bet365) to prove too good here. He’s a Grade 1 winner against handicappers with one of the best amateur jockeys on board in Patrick Mullins. It’ll be no negative either that Patrick will have had a couple of rides earlier in the day too. Gaillard Du Mesnil will be fine over this trip having run a cracker in last years Irish National and he’s pretty versatile ground-wise. Tough to beat.

 

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