Champion Hurdle Betting

The Cheltenham Festival is just around the corner. One of the most anticipated races would have to be the Champion Hurdle, attracting a lot of avid punters from all across the globe. In the run up to the race the Champion Hurdle betting market is sure to hot up. The race is also featured on the first day of Cheltenham Festival, with several top horses competing for the trophy. Since this is a run of over two miles and a half a furlong, strength and solid pace are the two characters a horse must have to take home the trophy.

Several top horses will be competing in the Champion Hurdle indeed. Competing horses such as Go Native and Solwhit will surely make this race interesting to follow, especially because they are in superb form and have the most chances of winning this year’s Champion Hurdle. Other top horses including Zaynar, Medermit, Punjabi, Binocular, and of course the Khyber Kim will also be competing for the top place, making this race that much more interesting.

Go Native is favored by a lot of bookmakers to win this year’s Champion Hurdle. With odds on him and Solwhit just a slight apart, it will be hard to decide who have the more chances of winning this year’s Champion Hurdle. This will certainly make betting a bit harder to do, but it will also make it a lot more challenging.

A good place to start is to find horses with enough Cheltenham experiences. You should be able to identify them easily by going through their track records. This is essentially important because 15 out of the last 16 winners are all horses with enough Cheltenham experiences, meaning they have competed in Cheltenham event before the Champion Hurdle. Since Champion Hurdle is also a superbly challenging race, Irish and British horses generally have more chances; Irish horses have won the Champion Hurdle 7 times while British horses hold the record of winning 8 Champion Hurdle trophies.