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Ruby Walsh’s Paddy Energy Stayers’ Hurdle Antepost Suggestions:
Teahupoo
Buddy One (each-way)
Gold Tweet (each-way)
Paddy Energy Media’s ‘From The Horse’s Mouth’ podcast ‘Cheltenham Countdown’ is again as host Tom Nugent picks the brains of the Cheltenham Competition’s winning-most jockey turned TV pundit Ruby Walsh and well-known journalist and broadcaster Rory Delargy.
Within the second of this yr’s collection, the gang have regarded on the Paddy Energy Stayers Hurdle forward of the 2025 Cheltenham Competition.
RUBY WALSH
The worth of Teahupoo for the Paddy Energy Stayers’ Hurdle is extra concerning the lack of competitors in that division than what Gordon Elliott’s runner is doing on the observe. He clearly beat Impaire Et Passe 14 months’ in the past within the Hatton’s Grace Hurdle however Lossiemouth (in a slowly run race) kicked him out of the way in which this yr. You have a look at Teahupoo and marvel. I do know coach Gordon Elliott says he’s undoubtedly a greater horse recent and presumably the run within the Galmoy Hurdle at Gowran Park value him the Stayers’ Hurdle crown in 2023.
He went to Cheltenham with a lot much less working beneath his belt final yr and received the Paddy Energy Stayers’ Hurdle. I feel he’s the dominant stayer within the division and he’s the one you’d undoubtedly wish to be on.
I’d hate to be opposing him.
However you form of have a look at Teahupoo and assume why didn’t he run at Christmas? Possibly the run within the Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse (when crushed by Lossiemouth) was too near Christmas? I perceive him not working within the Galmoy Hurdle at Gowran Park on Thursday because the turnaround for Cheltenham for a stayer is simply too tight. I fully get that.
However I have a look at him and assume: ‘Connections thought that run (at Fairyhouse) was nice, we’ll go straight to Cheltenham’.
I do know I couldn’t anyway. You simply form of marvel why didn’t he run (at Christmas)?
Every-way choices
I don’t know whether or not there’s one ‘lurking’ within the discipline, however there’s two undoubtedly at a sufficiently big worth that curiosity me. Going again hurdling would undoubtedly rejuvenate Buddy One. He hates fences. I’m not saying he’s ok to win the Paddy Energy Stayers’ Hurdle – however he might run into a spot. (He’s entered within the Galmoy Hurdle on Thursday at Gowran Park).
And the opposite one – who may even must revert to hurdles – is the French horse Gold Tweet who received the Cleeve Hurdle in 2023. I assumed he ran properly for a great distance within the Betfair Chase at Haydock final November however is he sure to remain? I’m unsure he’s however I simply assume he’s an enormous worth for a race that appears very open after Teahupoo, the place he to return to hurdling.
Is there a mad front- runner within the Stayers’ Hurdle right here that’s going to make it a extremely strongly-run race. I don’t assume there’s. It might be slightly bit tactical and that may swimsuit Gold Tweet.
Gold Tweet and Buddy One are simply each-way pokes. Teahupoo is basically laborious to oppose.
Ruby Walsh’s Paddy Energy Stayers’ Hurdle Antepost Suggestions:
Teahupoo
Buddy One (each-way)
Gold Tweet (each-way)
*Odds quoted on the widget are Future Racing / Antepost costs which implies that in case your choice doesn’t run within the race for no matter cause – you’ll lose your stake beneath conventional Antepost guidelines.
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