Cheltenham Festival 2019 Day Three: Stayers' Hurdle and More – Live! | sport

There is no doubt about the title of the match of the third day of Cheltenham as regards the heart of the punters.

Paisley Park is in a corner of Stayers's Hurdle. His small owner, Andrew Gemmell, is born blind, has developed a pbadion for racing and sport through radio commentary as a child and has supported his horse at age 33. In the other: Faugheen, a hero of the Festival, no doubt thanks to his brilliant victory at the 2015 Champion Hurdle but also to the one whose owner, Rich Ricci, is decidedly unpopular in the betting fraternity thanks to his links with the late bookmaker BetBright .

Of course, nobody wants a sick person on the horse, and many will support him as a second strong favorite. But at the same time, if Faugheen misses the goal, it will relieve at least some of the trouble supporting a loser if Paisley Park is the one to beat him.

In the meantime, if Faugheen wins, the praise you will hear later will be for the horse and his trainer, Willie Mullins, who will have achieved another minor miracle with a rider injured and whose best days seemed to be behind him. Many times. the past. The answer if Ricci is called to climb the podium, on the other hand, could be mitigated, it is the least that one can say.

Paisley Park will also be sold at a reasonable price, as was the case with Tiger Roll in Cross Country yesterday. Tiger Roll and Altior, winners 4 to 11 of Champion Chase, have been rightly welcomed by the public, but the greatest heat, I think at least, seems to have been reserved for Tiger Roll, probably because Many fans doubled their money after deciding that Altior was too short to support with the kind of money that would make it worth it.

It was a windy but dry day in Cheltenham on Wednesday and the progression on the New course, which will take over for the next two days, is officially good to soft, sweet in places. It's raining though, and updates on its arrival and volume will be available here all day.

Chris Cook's advice for the day is there, and the action starts at 1:30 pm with the JLT Novice Chase.