Supreme Novices Hurdle

Tuesday 16th March 2010. A two mile novices race which often produces winners who continue to shine at the festival in future years.

The opening race of the Festival and we will attempt to highlight the essential trends you should be aware of when making your selections for all the Cheltenham races. We will try and give you a handful of key statistics that should narrow the selection process down to help you back lots of winners at Cheltenham!

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Paddy Power will refund all losing win singles on this race, if Dunguib wins. Click the following link for full details and to claim your free bet - Paddy Power

Supreme Novices Hurdle Trends

31 of the last 35 winners have been aged five or six. You can stick a line through a few with that stat!

All out of the last ten winners had won at least 50% of their hurdle starts

All of the last ten winners had run within the last 45 days

Nine of the last ten winners won last time out

Seven of the last ten winners were trained in Ireland

Supreme Novices Hurdle Tips

The Supreme Novices is a great race to get involved in from an ante-post perspective and with the exception of Ebaziyan in 2007 shocks have been fairly rare recently in this race.

This race has been one of the highlights of the Festival for Irish horses in the last decade, so it could pay to focus any ante-post selection on the outcome of the main Irish novice hurdle trials: the Paddy Power Future Champion Novice, The Deloitte and The Royal Bond.

Last year's Bumper winner Dunguib is seen as a banker by many people but with some question marks over his jumping it may pay to look elsewhere.

One horse who fits all our trends is the Willie Mullins trained Flat Out. This five-year-old was an impressive winner of his first outing over hurdles and whilst he has some way to go to match the likes of Dunguib on paper he has the potential to defy his current very attractive odds of 40/1.

His trainer won this race just three years ago at a big price and Flat Out looks a great each-way bet to start proceedings at the 2010 Cheltenham Festival.

Back Flat Out each way in the Supreme Novices Hurdle

Paddy Power Special Offer!
Paddy Power will refund all losing win singles on this race, if Dunguib wins. Click the following link for full details and to claim your free bet - Paddy Power

Supreme Novices Hurdle Odds

Full list of the runners and the 2010 Surpeme Novices Hurdle Odds.

 

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