Cheltenham Festival Day 1 - Champion Hurdle

Hello & welcome to Day One of the Greatest Show on Turf. Usually I have a pic of the horse I think is going to win the days feature event at the start of my entry but this year I thought I'd do something a little different.

This year I'm honouring Cheltenham hero's of yesteryear starting with the Champion Hurdle winner of 1980 & 1981, SEA PIGEON. Go on, look at him in the pic above in all his leaping glory winning the 1980 event. I'm not going into his life story (that's for another blog another time) but he was a grand little dual purpose horse that won 21 races from 40 starts & £130,395 under NH rules & is a personal fave of his ex jockey Jonjo O'Neill.

Ok ok, enough already I know why you're here. You want to see some winning tips. Well here goes nothing though I cannot be held accountable if my selections don't quite manage to pull it off or happen to be non runners on the day itself. I am NOT a clairvoyant!

1.30 Red Moloney 2.05 I'msingingtheblues 2.40 Wichita Lineman 3.20 Brave Inca / Whiteoak (EW) 4.00 Garde Champetre 4.40 Chomba Womba

And that is it for day one. I'm off to place my bets. Good luck & ciao for now

TJ