Cheltenham Tips 2011, Cheltenham Festival Tips

So Here It Is….It’s Cheltenham Festival 2011

Over the next four days professional punter and tipster Carl Harris will mark your card daily at the Cheltenham Festival with his best bets of the day. Today though Carl takes a look ahead to the festival with some interesting multi-bets that could potential yield a very healthy return.

So. after all the twists and turns, the marketing, the preview evenings and the bookies special offers, the Cheltenham Festival has finally arrived. Four days of National Hunt racing unrivalled anywhere in the world, that is the simple truth. It is four days of fantastic racing, but Cheltenham also becomes a battlefield. Punters wage war with on the bookmakers, it is always a brutal conflict, more often than not a total bloodbath, but which way will it go in 2011?

Certainly 2010 was a massacre of the punters by the bookmakers. Shrewd investors will have bought bookmaker’s shares on their return from Prestbury Park in 2010, such was the devastation the results brought to the betting public. This year though, punter’s are our for revenge, eagerly optimistic, it’s time to make those evil bookmakers pay. I reckon that a banker accumulator may be just the thing to do just that!

So what are my Cheltenham festival bankers? And what about those pre-festival bets, like top trainer, leading rider? If you like special bets, then you are going to have plenty offered to you this week, that is the biggest certainty of the Cheltenham Festival. As far as top trainer and leading rider, I honestly have to say this is a market that holds little appeal for me, these markets hold little value and are a nightmare to work out! There are better ways to get paid, in my view anyway. This is my idea of a pre-festival flutter….

If you have a spare £10 or £20 then a banker accumulator is an interesting investment that could give you a big return, certainly a exciting involvement. A couple of years ago I landed one such bet and it paid out a very healthy sum. I recommend an each-way accumulator on;

• Cue Card
• Quevega
• Time for Rupert
• Big Buck’s

Four horses I think will win and roll up in to a very decent payout indeed. I back the bet each-way as an insurance policy. So why do I think these are the bankers?

Cue Card, Supreme Novice Hurdle
Cue Card was talked about as a Champion Hurdle possible, but that notion was soon put to bed when he was well and truly beaten by Menorah, who in fact won this race last year. The form though of Cue Card is rock solid, Menorah is the only horse to have beaten him and he will now probably go off as favourite for the Champion Hurdle. From what I have seen Cue Card looks a very decent sort, and is the most likely winner here. He looks head and shoulders above this field, form what we have seen Cue Card is the real deal !

Quevega, Mares Hurdle
Quevega is looking for a historic third win in this race, she is all about class. She has raced just once since last year’s victory but will be prepared to the minute and the vibes are positive from the Irish camp. I would suggest that Quevega is a good thing if I dare use those words at Cheltenham! She is far better, if at her best than anything else in this division.

Time For Rupert, RSA Chase
The feature on Wednesday’s card is the RSA Chase. I think Time For Rupert is nailed on here, there I go again! He bolted up over course and distance last time and it will be a huge win for both trainer and jockey, but this is a real class horse over fences who at 9/4 looks a real banker bet. There is nothing in the field to worry Time For Rupert if he reproduces that performance of last time out.

Big Buck’s, World Hurdle
the price for Big Buck’s is very generous. Odds against, in fact 5/4, even 11/8 is being offered as I write and that to me is a license to print money. He has all the class in the world and the emergence of David Pipe’s Grand Crus is the driving force behind the drift that has developed on Big Buck’s. Nothing will stop Big Buck’s in my view from, hopefully, emulating Quevega and making it three wins in a row in their respective events. This is one horse though that is a banker and I have already lumped on Paul Nicholls’ charge as the cornerstone of my Festival betting strategy. If I had to pick one horse for the 2011 Cheltenham Festival it would most definitely be Big Buck’s. No doubt about it!

So my pre-festival bet is an each-way accumulator, on

• Cue Card
• Quevega
• Time for Rupert
• Big Bucks

I hope you join me throughout the week and that we make some money and best the bookies in to submission !

Good Luck, Carl