Overview
- Friday’s card features Jonbon bidding for a Shloer Chase hat-trick after recent schedule changes that moved the race to Friday and replaced the cross-country with a veterans’ chase.
- Heavy rain forecasts and testing ground are central to preview analysis, with tipsters prioritising horses proven in soft conditions across the meeting.
- Saturday’s Arkle Trial points to July Flower after an impressive chase debut at Limerick, with Henry de Bromhead’s mare widely tipped to progress over two miles.
- The Paddy Power Gold Cup picture shifted after reported withdrawal of market fancy Jagwar as ‘off colour’, with value cases made for Es Perfecto at around 16/1 and an ante‑post 16/1 recommendation for Panic Attack.
- Sir Alex Ferguson is a prominent co-owner across the weekend, with talkSPORT calculating a hypothetical £216,426 prize-money haul if his declared runners were all to win.