Cheltenham Festival Wednesday Ante-Post tips and accumulator
The 2025 Cheltenham Festival is fast approaching and there are still many punters looking to make the most of the ante-post markets.
If you're looking for a Wednesday accumulator look no further as the second day of Cheltenham Festival this year looks a great one for decent priced favourites and strong contenders.
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Wednesday at Cheltenham Festival has FOUR Grade 1 contests that look to live up to the billing of the whole event.
The Turners Novices' Hurdle, also known as the Baring Bingham sees a great British vs Irish clash with The New Lion against Final Demand.
The former is trained by Dan Skelton who always does well with his horses over hurdles against Final Demand trained by Willie Mullins.
Another strong race is the Brown Advisory with Mullins training the top two in the market over the 3m novices' chase.
Ballyburn vs Dancing City has the makings of a great clash and taht's just the front two of the rest of a potential 18-strong field.
The feature race the Grade 1 Queen Mother Champion Chase sees Jonbon the clear favourite after having an incredible run of form and is worthy for an odds-on shot.
The final race of the day on Wednesday is the Grade 1 Champion Bumper with 36 entrants still in the running for what will be a maximum of 24 runners on the day, with little to really determine the winner currently.
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Cheltenham Festival Day 2 racing tips
- TURNERS NOVICES' HURDLE
1.20: The New Lion 3/1 - BROWN ADVISORY
2.00: Dancing City 3/1 - CHAMPION CHASE
3.20: Jonbon 4/5
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The New Lion
It's rare to be impressed so much by a hurdler who is then as high as 3/1 in the ante-post and not even favourite for The Baring Bingham, known as the Turner's Novices' Hurdle.
The six-year-old has emerged as the Skelton team have been incredibly impressive this year and could have a great Cheltenham Festival.
The New Lion appears to be strong in the market and now with non-runner no bets coming into play on talkSPORT BET, appeals even more for his price.
Dancing City
After The Jukebox Man was ruled out of contention for the Brown Advisory, it opens up this race even more for Willie Mullins to assert his dominance in a Grade 1 field.
He's set to send out Ballyburn and Dancing City into this race who are the two strong frontrunners.
There are a couple things to consider between the two as it does seem a choice between them at this stage.
One, is how good Ballyburn is, he's won two of his three chase starts -only being beaten by the incredible Sir Gino at Kempton over 2m.
The step up to 2m5f looks to have suited him well and going up again to 3m for the Brown Advisory looks a sure thing.
But Dancing City has already proven, time and time again that he's got the stamina.
Winning both of his chase starts over this kind of distance and even beat The Jukebox Man over hurdles at Aintree.
I feel like the money will go on Ballyburn to be a big favourite for the punters and Dancing City, will be the surprise winner who will just handle the conditions and distance that little bit better.
Jonbon
12 wins from 14 chase starts suggests this horse is still very underrated.
It could be to do with the manner in which he's won not always winning fans over.
Or perhaps his loss to El Fabiolo in the Arkle at Cheltenham Festival in 2023 is what sticks in punters' minds.
But Jonbon has proved time and time again that even if his jumping isn't always perfect he still somehow manages to win constantly.
A win over El Fabiolo in the Celebration Chase last April really confirmed his ability having suffered a shock loss in January at Cheltenham to Elixir De Nutz.
He's won five in a row now and this season he's been jumping better than ever.
Jonbon isn't even making mistakes that would usually plague these big races which is partly why he went on to cosily beat Energumene in the Clarence House Chase, winning just like his late stablemate Shishkin did ahead of the same horse three years prior.
There's of course got to be caution when betting on the Champion Chase as this is the race where favourites go to lose.
Shishkin (5/6), Chacun Pour Soi (8/13), Defi Du Seuil (2/5) and Douvan (2/9) have all failed to deliver at heavy odds-on prices since 2017 alone which could be a concern for many given the race record, despite how solid Jonbon looks.
Tom Lunn's Horse Racing P/L
- From November '24: +41.93pts
- From May '24: +195.88pts
- From July '23: +335.35pts
All odds correct at time of writing
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