Champion Hurdle Tips

The Champion Hurdle is the betting spotlight of day one of the Cheltenham Festival. Champion Hurdle betting is fashionable amongst punters as they have the whole hurdle season to work with when forecasting a winner. A few of the common Champion Hurdle betting strategies are:

• Check for form in the run prior to the Champion Hurdle. Champion Hurdle achievers have a extended history of winning the race directly prior to the event.
• Bet on young entries. The pace of the Champion Hurdle appears to privilege younger horses with 6, 7 and 8 year olds winning the bulk of races over the past two decades.
• Katchit who came through the race in 2008 was the first 5 year old to do so since 1985. On that basis it is improbable that a five year old will be succeeding this year.
• 40% of the winners in the last ten runs have been popular in the Champion Hurdle stakes.
• You may also need to strike any 5 year olds on the card, as a 5 year old last won the Champion Hurdle in 1985.
• In the past decade the front-runner has won the Champion Hurdle on five junctures, so this is one race to back the favourite.
• Out of the last 25 winners, 22 of them won their previous race. So a horse with 1 at the end of his recent form guide could be very noteworthy.
• Champion Hurdle past winners, have often come back and accomplished the double. The most recent one of these was Hardy Eustace in 2004 and 2005.

Champion Hurdle Odds

Go Native	7/2	10/3	7/2	3	3
Solwhit	7	6	5	5	6
Medermit	7	15/2	7	7	7
Binocular	7	8	8	8	7
Khyber Kim	8	8	8	8	7
Punjabi	7	7	7	7	7
Zaynar	7	15/2	8	8	8
Celestial Halo	12	12	12	12	11
Starluck	11	12	12	12	12
Donnas Palm	40	40	40	40	40
Won In The Dark	50	66	66	50	50
Ebadiyan	100	100	100	66	66
Jumbo Rio	80	100	66	80	80
Muirhead	66	100	100	80	100
Raise Your Heart	200	200	200	200	200
Kargali	250				250
Royal And Regal	200				300