And welcome to Cheltenham for a special latest addition off the road to tell them it's an extended one will be talking about all the key races that'll be staged here over the next four days on.

We have some special guests along the way.

You like to say that Nick Luck will be with us this morning, and this afternoon he'll be providing lots of infused and also some news his ass in the truck Now over to you, Nick.

Pleasantly mild by Children Early March standards.

Temperatures into double figures.

This ground will be trying out all the time ground as it is on turf tracks this morning.

It's officially soft on 90% of the track.

That good, too.

Soft places are on the spur on the Old Course, where the old four miles star on the two and 1/2 mile star.

So the first bit of that is good too soft. 00:00:57.690 --> 00:01:1.690 The rest of the Old course on the new courses all soft but drying. 00:01:1.690 --> 00:01:7.970 There is some rain forecast tonight into tomorrow, drying up before the start of the Supreme Novices hurdle. 00:01:7.970 --> 00:01:16.670 That is what the forecast is telling us that We should be reluctant to be dogmatic about that as far as other important uses concerned this morning, the secretary say.

For digital culture, media and sport, Oliver Doubting has announced that the Children vessel, as far as he was concerned before he entered the Cobra meeting this morning, would definitely go ahead.

He was asked that question directly on BBC Radio five Live.

So that is good news.

And the third piece of important news to tell you surround out your There is a cautiously positive report that has just been issued from Nicky Henderson at seven Barrows saying that out your has definitely made progress, he said.

If the race was today, he wouldn't be able to run.

But he's definitely improved since yesterday.

They're continuing to put him on the water treadmill, and they are now quite hopeful that he will make Wednesday's Queen Mother champion Chase.

I will be talking to, amongst others through the next 90 minutes.

I hope Henry to Bram head down Skelton on James Nash. 00:01:57.880 --> 00:02:0.360 But for now, with all that news under your belt, it's back to you, Lydia. 00:02:1.450 --> 00:02:16.180 We'll talk about the impact of the setback this happened to lt or later on in the show when we focus on the Beltway Queen, Mother Champion Chase that first of all, we've got a question to ask you at home, which is about who you think will emerge as top jockey over the four days off the Children Festival presented by Magnus.

You've got a choice or four, but you can also add your free form of alternates.

We got Paul Townend, Rachel Blackmore, Davey Wrestle or Barry Garrity.

But please explain why you think one of those might win.

And if you've got somebody else, do you have a sneaking fancy for please?

Also, let us know that that's where you can go via Twitter or Facebook on our pages to talk about that, I'll get you a view at the end of the show.

I think, first of all, do you think it's gonna be a tight one that I think it would be because I don't think anybody raids a huge amount of favorites.

I think Patrick Mullins could even write the most favorites.

Plus, I used to come here on behalf confident I'll be Champion are leading writer here.

When I was writing her name, favorites had usually made it a bit easier, but Paul's not in the same position.

I don't think so.

I mean, Mysterion Mayor. 00:02:59.430 --> 00:03:0.730 Men are being favored in the forest. 00:03:0.730 --> 00:03:2.150 Cashback definitely won't be us. 00:03:2.140 --> 00:03:5.250 Skill is Emily definitely won't be the right one favorite tomorrow. 00:03:5.260 --> 00:03:5.860 That'll be Benny. 00:03:5.860 --> 00:03:7.680 Did you in on a Wednesday? 00:03:7.690 --> 00:03:10.150 Will you write a favorite at all with shock and force winds?

Favorite, I doubt it mean might in the favorite in the Ryan Air over the Plutarch.

But that's only a might not dependent on Tuesday, and Wednesday has gone, so He's lots of good rights, but they couldn't be sharp enough for me.

Do you think there's a lot of pressure on him this time around?

Because obviously, you were the one that had to soak up that major pressure pool for the yard in previous seasons.

I think they'll be expectation, but the expectation has to be realistic to you.

Look at a lot of the rights Paul Town that will have on DDE, all of them, with the exception, maybe of any Did you who'd you would be expected to win, called on the rest of their lives and not win races?

Could finish second and third and fourth have run unbelievable dresses, so he'll be realistic in his expectation.

It's whatever he does, everybody else expects would be different.

Okay, well, let's find out what Ruby and I expect and also you at home.

Please feel free to email and give us your point of view.

Viravaidya Various pages. 00:03:58.510 --> 00:04:1.970 We'll start by talking about the debate champion Hurdle on. 00:04:2.300 --> 00:04:10.260 We want to discuss all of these races really about the tactics because everybody has talked about you know what chance each horse has and poured over it.

But we're trying to think about it, trying to visualize how the race might actually be run.

Yeah, we are, because I mean, look ever has their opinion inform.

And no one has talked of order.

Knew me.

But soon you and I even but it looked out of this race.

There is pace, and there's quite a bit of pears.

Cornerstone lad.

Not so sleepy on dhe petty bourgeois.

So even for jockeys, riding in the race is a little bit of relief.

It's not going to be dark tactical.

They should go forward and go good even got up.

And then it's about looking at where you think the dangers will be for Buddy Garrity, he might be town.

Where is he going to sit on her and the guys that are writing to beat her?

What are they going to do?

So with pace in the race, it will be his tactical as it could be.

Now I tend to agree, but let's examine that pace show and we'll start with not so sleepy.

Now, of course, we've seen him a lot on the flat.

We've seen him over hurdles as well, and he likes the hair off in front. 00:04:56.510 --> 00:05:2.980 But this is what happened to him in the better hurdle here it Wasit was, unfortunately there just out of a tractor, technically the hour breaking the rules here. 00:05:2.990 --> 00:05:5.720 And they imagine signing McNeely was starting that day. 00:05:5.720 --> 00:05:11.580 Woz going to the letter that all we chuck them coming up, keeping the lads keep the pressure on them to do the thing right.

Standing start.

We missed the break, but that can't happen.

That can happen.

A lot of horses tape flies back and they go back onto the Hawks away from the tape, and he's completely missed the kick.

But that was unfortunate.

Code dubious.

Could that happen?

The Champion order?

It's a possibility.

17 minutes This time around, Maur possible the new usual.

You might think it is, but in the pain done how Petty Moose Rob behaves.

Really, Cornerstone Light seems to be a nation relaxed individual, even though he likes the rest Forward.

Not so sleepy gets a bit fuzzy, but it's what not so sleepy.

Those two Petty Marshall are at the start on how they read each other.

Yeah, let's talk about petty mutual covers.

He's older, more mature horse.

But let's see what he's done here in the past year and in the 2017 champion Hurdle.

And this is his behavior in the parade.

It is.

It's three years ago on.

Remember when he was in really balances?

Initially, he wore a hood. 00:05:58.690 --> 00:06:2.050 Hey, when he went to Henry's, then they took the hood off from no look in the Arkham. 00:06:2.050 --> 00:06:2.780 We saw the speed. 00:06:2.780 --> 00:06:5.380 He went in the article with them saying Calvados. 00:06:5.380 --> 00:06:6.270 They weren't really hard. 00:06:6.280 --> 00:06:11.430 But he did behave himself at the start, to be fair, depending Mussawar, and he is now a year older again.

That was two years ago, He has a bit of age and he say, Look, he's wearing cheap pieces now from Hostile started with the hold now reason cheek pieces to make him go.

So he should be here himself.

Well, he's the hearts of a lot of big rest.

Lydia.

I just think with the other pace in the race, it will make him quite vulnerable, but even watched him walk into the tape and behave here.

If he does that tomorrow, it probably strengthens.

Not so sleepy chance.

They're not being a force that so.

We're thinking that aversion to big crowds and noise, and the big day is possibly a thing for the passivity.

Mitchell.

I agree with you.

I think he should run his race.

But unfortunately, because there are other front runners around him, I think his chances compromised.

It does.

It makes it a bit more difficult for him, I suppose, were not so sleepy.

It's not a similar park, maybe to the wound that you'II Morrison thread with Marble. 00:06:55.950 --> 00:07:6.070 Arch, who finished second in the champagne, already think I was here after running poorly and a he'll talk all trophy, so look sleepier and poorly in that race, the bed for Hurdle is it is now. 00:07:6.070 --> 00:07:9.080 And he's coming here, but again are on the front end. 00:07:9.080 --> 00:07:10.630 In a race like this, it could be difficult.

That second cornerstone, lad, shall we?

This is the horse of those three that once we're thinking I'm going to be toward the fourth.

I think we'll be least bothered by it because I think he can take a lead quite happening.

He can.

He can sit behind that.

He obviously made the run in the fight.

And Fifth, Freddie stole a march and move out there who got injured on the time.

And then he made the run in here in front of body Independent Hills in the Russell.

He doesn't have to.

I can see him lining up with him, but I can just see him slapped him hard.

Yeah, exactly.

And I think that that will suit him just fine.

That doesn't mean that you would think that.

Let's say not so sleepy gets off quite happily.

Petty Mutual's with him.

If one or two of them start to fade, we've got Cornerstone lad to take over.

So you've got sort of overlapping pace, so it should really be into end.

You do, and you have plenty of stairs in here.

The legs are Super Sunday are called me. 00:07:57.580 --> 00:08:2.430 Lord might necessarily want to be in front of the top of the hill, but they won't want to pay a slowing down. 00:08:2.430 --> 00:08:13.470 So they're writers will be keeping the pressure on and keep pushing forward so I could see this being really intend on may be opening the door for a harsh comment from well after Pants in a big price to run into the prize money.

I want to talk about the end to end gallop in terms of epic Tom.

But first of all, let's examine how she ran here last year.

Now it's Anyone run Children, so you can't draw any definite conclusions.

She makes a serious of mistakes.

Nicky Henderson has said that he felt that she was still feeling the effects of the of the flu jab.

Does that make you jump poorly?

I get one of, you know, explain.

So I have to get one.

I don't have any side effects for me.

To tell you the truth, you're jumping quite sweetly lonely.

I smoothly as someone who's as many injuries can jump him, which is not that smooth, either, by the way, but I thought she was quite keen early in this race, and she did jump very unlike her.

She jump poorly.

Our progression all year has bean.

Jumping has gotten much better to the season, but she was free in this race.

He traveled really about two hours, even after making those mistakes.

I know that was the new course. 00:09:0.110 --> 00:09:1.730 She faded against that. 00:09:2.820 --> 00:09:3.840 Steph, he'll hear. 00:09:3.970 --> 00:09:4.940 But it's interesting. 00:09:4.940 --> 00:09:8.400 The winner is in Jared's sort of his red corners, still behind debutantes. 00:09:8.560 --> 00:09:11.960 The runner office concert instant a white cap of cinema near a knight's extra weight.

They were last in second last, passing the stands in this race.

It was a strongly Ron race.

The stamina really came into it.

She's a year or writing.

Jumping has improved nor wind.

Maybe she was good before this, but that jumping more do.

But I can see how are we going to be okay?

We can have a look at her jumping this season as well.

That was her last season, where she's just keeping on the one pace of the hill, having really stumps been drawn this season.

She's been really slick, as we've been saying over hurdles in the Jerry Field and also when winning the Christmas hurdle.

Both the voters were relatively tactical affairs, steadily run, so we don't actually know what she's going to be like in an end to end Gallop really strongly run champion Hurdle.

No, we don't.

But she was sloppy at the second last new revenge on the jury feeling.

Then she really paying the last in Kent. 00:09:57.660 --> 00:10:2.650 Then she race lately after Pace, but because was a stop start race, she probably wasn't in the ideal position. 00:10:2.840 --> 00:10:3.650 Torture noted back. 00:10:3.650 --> 00:10:6.810 She got pushed waiting on the band, but he was trying to get her forward. 00:10:6.980 --> 00:10:10.100 And yet, in a bit, after dropping this order, he ends a boat.

Say paint Indians, food, Raffles.

Quick, grab him.

But the second last very good.

But the last hurdle is the difference.

In the last year, she's tight, that hard and that she barely changed their legs to pull herself right.

Flix the top are she got up strongly to the line.

Look, I know it's tempting.

It's a completely different ball game.

But rock on Rubio and Cherry Field and just got tossed off the Christmas ornament.

He came here to win.

It isn't unknown.

The track, that's all it is.

You know you can't necessarily hold one run a course against Oh, if you need a much bigger body of evidence, I would be the same.

I think so, too.

She's a deserving favorite, and in a race that I'm tired of people saying, Oh, it's a shock and champion order There's no superstar, but there's a lot of very good a lot of good horses in here on rock solid gold horses in here.

But she is the one that could improve into her now.

And she's got her £7.

There's announces well, and you know, race has got to be run before you know whether it's good or bad.

Exactly. 00:10:58.540 --> 00:11:5.780 Okay, let's look at Pentland Hills showy, and we have a look at him when he used to be running on the flat and he was quite wayward, quite often in a finish. 00:11:6.080 --> 00:11:6.850 This is him. 00:11:6.970 --> 00:11:10.880 At first on, he's wandering all over the shop on Dhe.