It’s the calm before the Aintree Festival storm this weekend for jumps fans as the four-day Cheltenham punting bonanza slowly slips into the fag-end of the National Hunt season before you can say who’ll win the 2,000 Guineas.
But first our crack team of TV tipsters will try to dish the dirt at Kempton Park, uncover a few faster-ground jumpers at Haydock and run the rule over the blue bloods of the Dubai World Cup.
They’ve just about recovered from the Festival so Paddy ‘Sole’ Power, Matt ‘Yeeehaaa’ Chapman, our not-so-media-shy racing trader and the man with the best jingle in racing Turftalk Tom have trawled to form book to try and land on a winner to pay for Easter.
But if Spring Loaded and California Chrome don’t get their well pampered noses in front – three quarters of the panel will be left with egg on their face – and not in the good way.
