Cheltenham Festival 2026 - Day One
13:20 - Supreme Novices’ Hurdle Kicking things off for the week with a more open renewal of the Supreme than in some recent years, at the time of writing nothing is jumping out at the prices. I’m sitting on a few small ante-post slips for OLD PARK STAR who sets the standard here for Nicky Henderson and he’s certainly the right favourite. The money in the past week or so was for MIGHTY PARK for Willie Mullins (money since dried up and drifting), it would be some effort to land this off the back of one run over hurdles - albeit a very impressive one. He won by a whopping 28 lengths at Fairyhouse and while visually impressive performances like that can sometimes be misleading, some of the timefigure boys seem to rate that run very highly. The facts are that at this stage OLD PARK STAR is the only one to run to Supreme winning figures so far this season, something may improve past him - but I’m going to stick with him here I think the current 5/2 on offer is probably...