Cheltenham Tips: Your best bets from Paddy’s pundits on Trials Day

STRAW FAN JACK is capable and a repeat of chasing home Pic d’Orhy in the 1965 Chase at Ascot on his return could see him going close.

HITMAN has run in some big races, including when a very good close up third in the Ryanair Chase behind Envoi Allen and Shishkin. He has had a wind op and with 5lb claimer Freddie Gingell on board, he has to enter calculations.

VICTTORINO has looked like a right horse at Ascot the last twice and he’s the value for Venetia Williams and Charlie Deutsch.

Last year’s winner IL RIDOTO lost nothing in defeat when caught close home here last month and remains feasibly treated.

VICTTORINO has won two chases this season already, beating Yeah Man and Flegmatik last time out and that’s good form especially with Flegamtik winning since.

THE REAL WHACKER could be compromised by going head-to-head with last year’s winner Ahoy Senor, but if he can avoid a destructive duel then he looks the value call having shaped well under rather negative tactics in the King George.

STAY AWAY FAY should love the conditions and despite looking as if he was beaten twice this season in his novice chase year, has rallied to finish strongly. That may well be enough to win this.

There should be a good gallop on which really is what ROYALE PAGAILLE needs and while it won’t be easy giving weight away I’ll stick with the Betfair Chase winner.

Claims can be made for all six but DATSALRIGHTGINO surely has more to offer over this sort of trip having raised his game significantly to win the Coral Gold Cup at Newbury.

At the current price, I’d take a chance on THE REAL WHACKER returning to the sort of form that saw him land the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase from Gerri Colombe last season.

The defection of El Fabiolo has left the Clarence House at the mercy of JONBON, and it’s hard to see him been beaten.

We can keep this short and sweet as with no El Fabiolo in the field, JONBON is just too good for the rest of them.

This should be a gimme for JONBON under his new rider James Bowen for Nicky Henderson. The Tingle Creek winner is just better than this lot and I can’t see a defeat bar a fall.

A fourth Clarence House staged here in the past 11 years following an abandonment at Ascot the previous week and with El Fabiolo staying at home, this looks a gilt-edged opportunity for JONBON to register an eighth success over fences.

Hard to look elsewhere bar JONBON who is the class angle.

I’m not at all bothered by LOSSIEMOUTH‘S lack of a recent run and she should be hard to beat in an International Hurdle  lacking an established star.

LOSSIEMOUTH looked so good when winning the Triumph Hurdle last season and then went to Punchestown and beat the boys in a Grade 1 contest. She gets the nod to continue her winning ways.

I’m happy to stick with established LOVE ENVOI who chased home Honeysuckle here in March in the Mares’ Hurdle.

LOSSIEMOUTH is the class act in this field and, while she’s been off the track longer than connections would have liked, she should be straight enough to make a successful reappearance. Love Envoi is an obvious danger. 

She’s short in the market and that won’t be for everyone but LOSSIEMOUTH can deliver on her seasonal debut.

The principals are closely matched on form so I’m inclined to play  FLIGHT DECK each-way and hope he can hit the frame or better.

The now 11-year-old DASHEL DRASHER has been his usual consistent self this season and ran a great race in this last year when beaten by French raider Gold Tweet. He is a model of consistency so he’s top of my list.

You would be gagging to take on PAISLEY PARK but the simple truth is he has the best form of these this season and I’d love him to score for Tom Bellamy and Emma Lavelle.

PAISLEY PARK has yet to get his head in front this season but has gone with all his old verve in two narrow reverses so this remarkable stayer is fancied to bag a fourth Cleeve Hurdle victory.

Emmet Mullins’ stable isn’t firing at the moment but given NOBLE YEATS profile and the fact the staying hurdlers division is wide open, I’m willing to chance him at the  prices.