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ITV will be broadcasting six live races from the Cheltenham Festival on Tuesday. The action on day one features some high-class names, most notably Epatante, Honeysuckle, Goshen and the exciting Shishkin, and we ve got you covered for the day s terrestrial TV coverage.
Cheltenham Festival Tuesday: ITV Racing tips
Our Spotlight experts select their best bets for the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival
Sky Bet Supreme Novices Hurdle, 2m, Grade 1
Appreciate It heads the smallest ever field for the Supreme as he aims to provide trainer Willie Mullins with a seventh success in the festival opener. Last year s Champion Bumper runner-up is unbeaten in three hurdle starts this season, most recently when beating Ballyadam by more than three lengths at Leopardstown, and is 6lb clear on official ratings. Tolworth Hurdle winner Metier, who is also 3-3 over hurdles, and Betfair Hurdle scorer Soaring Glory lead th
Unbeaten Honeysuckle faces tough task
Plenty of punters will look to land a nice accumulator on day one of the Cheltenham Festival, but it is never as simple as just backing short-priced favourites and being rewarded.
Saying that, in Shishkin and Concertista you have two extremely solid market leaders on your side. Shishkin looks highly likely to extend his winning streak, as his odds suggest, while Concertista won by a big margin at the festival last year.
Although Honeysuckle is unbeaten after ten runs, she isn t a certainty. She faces a champion in Epatante, as well as several talented geldings, and may find life tougher than her price suggests.
You must have a few Bob on Olinger in the Ballymore
Bob Olinger can give his trainre Henry De Bromhead another Cheltenham winner.
WHAT a race we have in store to kick off Wednesday’s card.
The Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle (1.20pm) has produced some fantastic horses over the years like Istabraq, Hardy Eustace and Faugheen.
And one of the best may well turn out to be last year’s victor Envoi Allen – then under the care of Gordon Elliott and now with Henry de Bromhead – who could make it 12 out of 12 in the Marsh Novices’ Chase on Thursday.
De Bromhead has plenty of bullets to fire this week, though, and I strongly fancy