Cheltenham Festival Review

What a week with some great equine performances. It wasn't a bad week from a punting perspective either with some nice ante post bets landed and plenty of stats horses winning. 

In total 15 Festival winners (see below) were highlighted as they either met significant stats or the general stats and I hope plenty of people backed quite of them. 12/15 winners came in the graded races with three from handicaps and this follows a similar pattern to previous years, although we did hit a 25/1 handicap winner and a few placed horses, so it wasn't all bad in those races. 

The focus is on the significant stats, and these are the ones which prove vital when shortlisting horses and this year there was 47 significant stats, out of those 40 were upheld which I am pretty pleased about. The worst performing race for the sig stats was the mares’ hurdle with only 1 of the 4 being upheld. If Telmesomethinggirl, who was still going fairly well when brought down, had stood up, things may have been different. 

In some of my posts I mention my ante post selections and I had a couple of messages asking when I start this etc. Well, I usually have on average 4-5 ante post bets during the Punchestown festival and then start in September and keep my fingers crossed they make to March. Not all do! 

As in previous years I will post the Aintree stats during that week once decs are out and then it will be on to the flat season. I hope everyone enjoyed the stats/posts this year and will continue to do so. Be lucky. 

Winners and placed horses highlighted in blog as either meeting sig stats or general stats (SP or price at time):

Con Hill 9/4 Won

Edwardstone 9/4 Won

Epatante 16/1 Placed

Honeysuckle 4/7 Won

HMS Seahorse 11/1 Placed 

Stattler 11/4 Won

Sir G 8/11 Won

A Senor 5/1 Placed

Compround 10/1 Placed

Energumene 7/2 Won

Facile Vega 15/8 Won

 Bob O 6/5 Won

Third Wind 25/1 Won

Winter Fog 11/2 Placed

 Allaho 8/13 Won

 E Allen (WO EW market) 7/1 Placed

Flooring Porter 4/1 Won

 Mister Coffrey 12/1 Placed 

Fil D'Or 11/2 Placed

Vauban 7/4 Won

M Coconer 8/1 Placed

 Bardenstown Lad 20/1 Placed

State Man 10/3 Won

C Mustard 7/1 Placed

West Cork 10/1 Placed

A P Tard 7/2 Won

Minella Indo 7/1 Placed

Protektorat 10/1 Placed

Billaway 13/8 Won

Winged Leader 13/2 Placed

Hollow Games 7/1 Placed