Cheltenham Festival Day 2 Accumulator

Wednesday has plenty of accumulator potential at the Cheltenham Festival, particularly in the Grade 1s on the card all of which have short-priced favourites.

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The picks include an impressive winner from last time out and an eye-catcher in one of the handicaps.

Four-fold

Selection One: Final Demand

Selection Two: Ballyburn

Selection Three: Jonbon

Selection Four: Unexpected Party

1.20 Cheltenham - 2m5f (Old) Turners Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1) (Registered As The Baring Bingham Novices' Hurdle) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (4yo+) - Final Demand

The decision might have been last-minute to target this race over Friday's Albert Bartlett, but it looks a wise one even with the impressive The New Lion standing in the way here.

Final Demand has got plenty of speed, it was that which took him away from a Grade 1 field at the Dublin Racing Festival last time. He was a 12-length winner that day and he would be favourite by daylight for this if The New Lion did not have first-move advantage, his last win having come in December.

2.00 Cheltenham - 3m (3m110y) (Old) Brown Advisory Novices' Chase (Grade 1) (Registered As The Broadway Novices' Chase) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (5yo+) - Ballyburn

There was scarcely a more impressive winner at last year's festival than Ballyburn in the Turners' Novices' Hurdle.

A lot has been made of his sketchy jumping, but short-priced favourites have come here with much worse profiles over fences. This horse lost out over two miles at Kempton to the exceptional Sir Gino, but has otherwise gone like a horse with his substantial engine intact.

The Brown Advisory is rarely the slog of old and he can use his supreme talent between the obstacles to land a second successive festival win.

4.00 Cheltenham - 2m (1m7f199y) (Old) BetMGM Queen Mother Champion Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (5yo+) - Jonbon

A lot gets made of how Jonbon has only ever lost at Cheltenham but this is where he tends to face his hardest assignments and, besides, he has not been back here since Nico De Boinville found the key to him.

Forceful riding has eked a bit more out of Jonbon, who was already top class. He showed Energumene a clean pair of heels in the Clarence House Chase at Ascot last time and that horse is his main rival again. He deserves to be odds on, the Cheltenham hoodoo is being overplayed.

4.40 Cheltenham - 2m (1m7f199y) (Old) Debenhams Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Challenge Cup Handicap Chase (Premier Handicap) (GBB Race) (Class 1) (5yo+) - Unexpected Party

Unexpected Party was 12/1 when he won this race last year, the shortest-priced winner of this race since it returned to the old course at Cheltenham.

He comes back at a shorter price and off a higher mark. However, last year he beat Libberty Hunter, who ran off 139 that day but is thought good enough to take his chance against the very best in the Champion Chase.

Unexpected Party, a bit like Langer Dan and however many similar types in the Dan Skelton yard, has been campaigned with a return to Cheltenham very much in mind. He can land this race for the second year in a row.

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