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[IstabraqBarRegular]

Anybody had an issue with Bet365 and their money back offer at Cheltenham yesterday ?
My bet was 2nd, money returned to account but it's dead money, can't spend it on a bet and can't withdraw it.
Have emailed them but wondering if anyone else had the same issue ? Thanks

[somer1]

Anybody had an issue with Bet365 and their money back offer at Cheltenham yesterday ?
My bet was 2nd, money returned to account but it's dead money, can't spend it on a bet and can't withdraw it.
Have emailed them but wondering if anyone else had the same issue ? Thanks

Had no problem here.

[BuckingThe Trend]

Cons Roc finished second in the 1.30 Cragmore PTP today……does that mean he has now qualified for the Cheltenham Hunters ?

I don't know but I sure would like to know. Hoping someone on here understands the qualification criteria and can let us all know.

[EnvoiAlien]

BuckingThe Trend as much as I could find, hope it helps.

CHELTENHAM
The St. James’s Place Festival Challenge Cup Open Hunters’ Steeple Chase (Class 2), Friday 15th March 2024.
Total prize fund £50000 Distributed in accordance with the Stakes and Prize Money Code, £24445 to the winning horse, The second to receive £12220, the third £6110, the fourth £3055, the fifth £1530 and the sixth £765

For five yrs old and upwards, which, are qualified to run in Hunters’ Steeple Chases under the Running Requirements Code and which, after October 2021, and before February 27th, 2024, have been placed FIRST OR SECOND ON TWO OCCASIONS in a hunters’ steeple chase in Great Britain or Ireland OR have WON TWO OPEN STEEPLE CHASES at Point-to-Point Meetings (i.e. Gentlemens, Ladies or Mixed Open Races) in Great Britain or Ireland OR have WON ONE OPEN STEEPLE CHASE at a Point-to-Point Meeting in Great Britain or Ireland and have been placed FIRST or SECOND in a hunters’ steeplechase.

Distance: 3m 2f 70yds
Enter by noon, February 27th and pay £60 stake
Confirm by noon, March 9th and pay £190
Declare by 10.00 a.m. March 13th
Weights: 5-y-o............11st 10lb;
6-y-o and up................................................ ................................................ 12st
Mares allowed........................................... .................................................. 7lb

[DenmanSacre]

This was it for 2024 so I assume just add a year onto the qualification thresholds

For five yrs old and upwards, which, are qualified to run in Hunters’ Steeple Chases under the Running Requirements Code and which, after October 2021, and before February 27th, 2024, have been placed FIRST OR SECOND ON TWO OCCASIONS in a hunters’ steeple chase in Great Britain or Ireland OR have WON TWO OPEN STEEPLE CHASES at Point-to-Point Meetings (i.e. Gentlemens, Ladies or Mixed Open Races) in Great Britain or Ireland OR have WON ONE OPEN STEEPLE CHASE at a Point-to-Point Meeting in Great Britain or Ireland and have been placed FIRST or SECOND in a hunters’ steeplechase.

Wouldn't qualify under those rules

[Eggs]

I don't know but I sure would like to know. Hoping someone on here understands the qualification criteria and can let us all know.

….looks to me like he won a Hunter Chase at Limerick on 29th Dec and came 2nd in a PTP today. He won 2 PTP in Feb and Mar last year but I’m not sure if that qualifies him.

[DenmanSacre]

….looks to me like he won a Hunter Chase at Limerick on 29th Dec and came 2nd in a PTP today. He won 2 PTP in Feb and Mar last year but I’m not sure if that qualifies him.

The PTP wins were a maiden and a winner of one, not an open PTP so they don't count for the qualification.

[Atlantic Viking]

Needed to finish in first 2 today according to the trainer recently.

[jrjr]

Possible he runs again before end Feb?

[BuckingThe Trend]

BuckingThe Trend as much as I could find, hope it helps.

CHELTENHAM
The St. James’s Place Festival Challenge Cup Open Hunters’ Steeple Chase (Class 2), Friday 15th March 2024.
Total prize fund £50000 Distributed in accordance with the Stakes and Prize Money Code, £24445 to the winning horse, The second to receive £12220, the third £6110, the fourth £3055, the fifth £1530 and the sixth £765

For five yrs old and upwards, which, are qualified to run in Hunters’ Steeple Chases under the Running Requirements Code and which, after October 2021, and before February 27th, 2024, have been placed FIRST OR SECOND ON TWO OCCASIONS in a hunters’ steeple chase in Great Britain or Ireland OR have WON TWO OPEN STEEPLE CHASES at Point-to-Point Meetings (i.e. Gentlemens, Ladies or Mixed Open Races) in Great Britain or Ireland OR have WON ONE OPEN STEEPLE CHASE at a Point-to-Point Meeting in Great Britain or Ireland and have been placed FIRST or SECOND in a hunters’ steeplechase.

Distance: 3m 2f 70yds
Enter by noon, February 27th and pay £60 stake
Confirm by noon, March 9th and pay £190
Declare by 10.00 a.m. March 13th
Weights: 5-y-o............11st 10lb;
6-y-o and up................................................ ................................................ 12st
Mares allowed........................................... .................................................. 7lb

Thanks for this. I actually found the same data and posted it on the January Yankee thread. To be honest I am still none the wiser with respect to qualification. Am hoping we have a P2P Specialist who can decipher the rules against his performances to date. The bookies have shortened him but that won't mean much.

[BuckingThe Trend]

Needed to finish in first 2 today according to the trainer recently.

That's encouraging. Thanks.

[DenmanSacre]

Darren Pierce on Twitter, who knows his hunter chases, said he hasn't qualified. Maybe there's been a change in qualification rules the trainers are aware of? If he needed to win, they should have picked an easier PTP than facing off against the winner.

[Lobos]

Darren Pierce on Twitter, who knows his hunter chases, said he hasn't qualified. Maybe there's been a change in qualification rules the trainers are aware of? If he needed to win, they should have picked an easier PTP than facing off against the winner.

If he wasn't good enough to win today then he'd surely struggle to win against the very best at the Fez.

[Atlantic Viking]

Apologies, this is the tweet I was referring to.

https://x.com/AidanMclean/status/1880590692218466403?t=vbr5wvHoy8tEpCJhw6wjbg&s=19

So maybe today wasn't the right one for the top 2 thing. Given up trying to work out qualification criteria this year.

[Quevega]

If he wasn't good enough to win today then he'd surely struggle to win against the very best at the Fez.

Rockys Howya is decent himself.
He beat the current favourite easily in an open point last May. Was also 4th beaten 4l by Premier Magic 2 years ago.

He has plenty of time to qualify, if they want to. And he stays sound.
It's point to point and hunter chase season full swing through Feb.