Cotswold Chase odds and betting tips: Bristol to claim first course win

Our skilled big-race tipster advised you why Defi Du Seuil needed to be backed last week. Find out why he’s tipping Bristol De Mai in the Cotswold Chase.

Cheltenham Trials Day looms up on Saturday afternoon, the final day of racing at Prestbury Park before the 4 most treasured days within the racing calendar come mid-March.

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Last year we noticed Frodon, Siruh Du Lac and Paisley Park all winning on Trials Day before landing Festival success seven weeks on. Read our ideas for the rest of the cardboard, whereas there are Placepot selections.

Cotswold Chase Tip: Bristol De Mai @ 9/4 with BetVictor

The Paddy Power Cotswold Chase is a recognised Gold Cup trial, although it hasn’t managed to provide a follow-up same-season blue riband winner since Looks Like Trouble (2000).

Other current winners to make the frame in the Gold Cup are Exotic Dancer (2007) and The Giant Bolster (2014).

This yr’s race has attracted a subject of six and it seems a great probability for Bristol De Mai to finally get a win round this famous place.

Frodon gained this a year in the past earlier than memorably carrying Bryony Frost to a gutsy Ryanair Chase success in March.

Paul Nicholls’ cost was one thing of an exception to the latest rule, given the Cotswold Chase has tended to go the best way of an out-and-out stayer in latest times.

Many Clouds (2015 and 2017), The Giant Bolster (2014) and Definitly Red (2018) are amongst the latest scorers, each famous for stamina.

Bristol De Mai is a horse that has been, in some quarters at least, relatively easy to poke enjoyable at in his profession. The grey has been dubbed as a little bit of mud-lark, with Haydock’s soft winter ground his perfect domain.

The Merseyside venue has been the scene of 4 of his eight wins over fences, together with a brace of victories in the Grade 1 Betfair Chase.

The observe as much as that race is after all Kempton on Boxing Day for the King George, something of a relative speed check for three-mile chasers by comparison, and it has not worked out nicely for Bristol De Mai in two attempts.

Little surprise then that Nigel Twiston-Davies sidestepped Kempton this season after Bristol De Mai completed second in the Betfair on his return.

He led them round in that race but Lostintranslation readily picked him off in the residence straight and, maybe, Daryl Jacob will look again and marvel if he could have made it more of a stamina take a look at.

Bristol De Mai has also been pressured to take care of suggestions Cheltenham ‘isn’t his monitor’ down the years but a rock-solid third behind Al Boum Photo in the Gold Cup back in March belies that theory.

Santini, Cotswold Chase betting favorite at the time of writing, was all out to hold off 144-rated Now McGinty on his comeback at Sandown.

That was his first chase start outdoors of novice firm and Nicky Henderson’s charge will require loads of enchancment to take this prize.

The Seven Barrows coach last won this race with Raffi Nelson some forty years in the past and, regardless of a wind operation since his last begin, Santini’s typically lazy type of racing could price him now.

Also price noting, he held each probability within the RSA here in March however was outbattled up the hill by a determined Topofthegame, so there are nonetheless lingering questions that he can take out a confirmed Grade 1 winner with this additional furlong to negotiate.

Ladbrokes Trophy winner De Rasher Counter is unlikely to be discovered wanting for stamina however Emma Lavelle’s Newbury scorer requires easily the best effort of his profession if the top pair out there run to their kind.

Similar sentiments are connected to Kauto Star Novices’ Chase winner Slate House for the Tizzard team. He has won three of four starts this season and is on the improve, but he is stepping into deeper waters now and can want plenty extra.

Perhaps the bigger danger might come from Phil Kirby’s Top Ville Ben, winner of the Rowland Meyrick at Wetherby on Boxing Day.

That was one of the best effort of his profession up to now and, whereas Aintree could be the final aim this season, he’d fall into the type of class that produced the likes of The Giant Bolster and Definitly Red on this race. He’s not and not utilizing a chance.

The outsider shall be Mick Channon’s Mister Whittaker, a decided three-time course winner at Cheltenham however, worryingly, pulled up on his sole try beyond three-miles at this venue.