Equinties - the rain is still coming

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Racing Twitter is a hive of Cheltenham preview activity AND THEYRE ALL TOO EARLY.

MARIES ROCK heading to the Mares instead of the Stayers on account of the pending mud is the most current example as to why you just need to wait until the day to place your bets.

You'll be thanking me later.

Headline roundup

Rain continues to fall 

It's really not long now until Cheltenham and bar perhaps Oisin Murphy not getting a ride in the Champion Bumper, there isn't any news more important than weather watch right now.

Prestbury Park officials reported that they had experienced even more rain yesterday with a fair deluge of rain at 15:00 for roughly an hour and as a result the going has changed to soft. I LOVE IT.

The forecast for today is sketchy with flurries of snow coming down but more rain could be on the way on later an throughout the weekend – keep those eyes on the Met Office yeh.

Willie is adamant on a run 

With doubts on where his staying novice chasers will go at Cheltenham next week, Willie Mullins has pulled the trigger on the Brown Advisory as yesterday he supplemented ADAMANTLY CHOSEN for the race. 

Costing £7,312, the six-year-old was last seen finishing eight lengths behind MIGHTY POTTER at the DRF over 2m5f and he will now go to the three-miler at the Festival, his first try at the extended distance. 

Although he started in late summer on good ground this season, the Grade 3 winner has some form on the sloppier stuff having finished second to EBASARI on heavy in a maiden hurdle, and he was second to GERRI COLOMBE in the Faugheen Novice Chase at Christmas on Soft to Heavy. 

He’s a general 16/1 shot for the Brown Advisory. 

Star Sports run quicker than Jake Paul

A clip of Johnny Dineen on his 94th Cheltenham preview last night (hosted by the Only Fools Love Horses lot) went viral this morning for trying to lay a big bet with Star Sports on his bankers for the Festival. They didn't take it.

The tweet of the short clip was quickly deleted as per the request of Star Sports but you can see it here in the below YouTube vid if you can be arsed to look.

“I’ll have £16,000 on [Mighty Potter] and the same on El Fabiolo at 13/8 and 15/8 (Star Sports Boosted prices)].”  

It seems like Star Sports only took on a tiny portion of the bet but were happy to with the normal prices instead. Lol.

Let’s see if Mr. Dineen is (some what of) a happy boy by the time the Festival is over and done with. 

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Todays best stats

No individual qualifiers today but eyes on Hobbs' horses at Exeter. He's landing 1 in 4 the track this season and is only second behind Paul Nicholls as Exeter's top trainer over the last 5 years. He has 3 runners there today and the first runner (14.25) looks a potential plot.

Risk on

Yesterday's selection NIGWA was given an exceptionally clever ride by Callum Rodriguez to finish 5th. He pulled her head off to shuffle back down the field and then found plenty of traffic towards the closing stages.

With a BGP affiliate in both the race last night (SMILING SUNFLOWER) and NIGWA's race at Nottingham (ALDEENAARY) we thought NIGWA was a good bet yesterday but sadly she wasn't off. We know she's good filly and one to track when the yard do pull the trigger.

The racing looks tough today on good ground where anything can win, so it's a leave from us today.