2016 Cheltenham Festival Main Yankee

[loveracing]

The judges will be selecting their nap of the day to feature in this years main festival yankee.

Incase you don't know who this years judges are...

Day 1 - Faugheen_Machine
Day 2 - Bitchy
Day 3 - Istabraq
Day 4 - MrMcGoldrick

All suggestions and pointers are all welcome from all FJ members.

[Thomas Shelby]

Excellent thread!

[loveracing]

Here's my pick...

Day 1 - Sempre Medici/Champion Hurdle (value bet)
Day 2 - Great Field/Coral
Day 3 - Garde La Victoire/JLT or Taglietelle/Pertemps
Day 4 - Vautour/Gold Cup (if good or good to soft)

[mayo]

I think they will split Great Field and Blazer - I think Blazer will be the Coral Cup horse.
Id pick something from Fred Winter for Tuesday. Our Thomas probably.
GLV is fine.
Rock The World in Grand Annual on Friday.

[mayo]

Rubys Yankee

Kruzhlinen, Ultima H’cap Chase, 3m 1f, Tuesday, 2.50pm

Philip Hobbs’ runner looks well handicapped on the back of a tidy win at Sandown when beating Le Reve (winner since) and Grandad’s Horse (second since) – a few weeks ago.

He’s lightly-raced so there should be more to come and dodged a race at Kempton in the meantime so it looks like the yard has protected his mark to keep him for this handicap – the third race on the opening day. Also, holds an Aintree Grand National entry.

More of That, RSA Chase, 3m 1f, Wednesday, 2.10pm

The novices’ Gold Cup looks a match between JP McManus’s More of That and No More Heroes from Gigginstown Stud.

I’ve been impressed by them both his season and one mistake could decide it in the other’s favour.

Both travel, stay and jump well and can handle all types of ground.

More of That has been to Cheltenham four times and has won four times while No More Heroes was a close-up third in the Albert Bartlett novices hurdle last year. Four of the last six winners of the RSA Chase came from the previous year’s Albert Bartlett so there looks to be very little between them.

But More of That beat Annie Power in the World Hurdle two years ago and that looks the strongest form in the book to me.


Thistlecrack, World Hurdle, 3m, Thursday 3.30pm

Not the most original pick, but we’re in it to win it right? Colin Tizzard’s World Hurdle favourite looks bomb-proof in everything he’s done this year. He just has to maintain that form going into Thursday’s feature race.
He’s a good jumper, stays strong and travels well in his races – in short he ticks all the boxes.

Unbeaten this season and impressive in all his wins, it’s down to the others to reach – and then pass – the standard Thistlecrack has set if they’re going to take the Staying Hurdlers’ crown.



Squouateur, Martin Pipe, 2m 4f, Friday, 4.50pm

All the indications are that Gordon Elliott will send Squouateur to this conditional jockeys contest rather than the Coral Cup or County Hurdle where he also holds entries.

I finished fourth at Fairyhouse on Townshend behind Squouateur and he looked impressive.

Sandra Hughes’ Total Recall was sixth that day after a 10-month lay-off and subsequently won a decent handicap hurdle at Naas last Sunday to frank the form.

Looks to be improving all the time and that what you need in a race like this which Gordon has gone close to winning a couple of times.


Read more at http://blog.paddypower.com/horse-rac...eXrzGXe5Vhq.99

[Faugheen_Machine]

After much deliberating, here's the day 1 Yankee........

1. Killer Crow - Nov handicap chase 12/1
2. Sempre Medici - Champion Hurdle 25/1
3. Noble Endeavour (NAP) - NH Chase 6/1
4. Polly Peachum - Mares Hurdle 6/1


Those prices with B365 NRNB.

[MrMcGoldrick]

Looks like Noble Endeavour is day one pick then

[Istabraq]

My vote will be for Garde La Victoire JLT Thursday

[MrMcGoldrick]

My vote will be for Garde La Victoire JLT Thursday

That's half the main Yankee sorted then, just needs the other 2 to get their finger out, oh wait, one of them is me:o

[Istabraq]

LR - when all yankees are agreed can you post on a separate thread please, I will look to back them all and fumbling through dozens pages won't be easy

[loveracing]

LR - when all yankees are agreed can you post on a separate thread please, I will look to back them all and fumbling through dozens pages won't be easy

Sure thing Ista.

[MrMcGoldrick]

Well guys I've been pouring over the preview thread, along with individual forum threads and looking for connection comments and I have to say those original 4 I put forward for the Friday Yankee look very well fancied and their preparation has been geared nicely to have them peaking at the right time. If it's OK with everyone I'll stick to those, The ones put up in the County look good suggestions but the race seems to have more angles than any of the others on Friday.So this is it;

Connetable, Triumph
Gangster, Bertie B
Djakadam, (Nap)Gold cup
Next Sensation, Grand Annual

Hope this suits the majority, fingers crossed lads

[Old Vic]

Fantastic work on these guys. Ill pin this one to the top.

[loveracing]

Correct me if I am wrong, but so far we have the following,

Day 1 - Noble Endeavour, NH Chase
Day 2 - GLV, JLT?
Day 3 - Bitchy?
Day 4 - Djakadam, Gold Cup

[Yeehaa]

Vibes seem to suggest Ruby rides Vautour so Djakadam will drift a bit ?