The Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle brings the curtain down on the 2024 Cheltenham Festival.
A bumper field of 23 runners are set to take their chance in the lucky last, which has been won by the likes of subsequent Grade 1 winners Galopin Des Champs and Banbridge in recent years.
Just like the majority of races at this week’s meeting, Ireland could snag another winner as Henry de Bromhead, Gordon Elliott and Willie Mullins all boast leading chances… but who do Paddy’s pundits think will win?
Martin Pipe Handicap Hurdle odds can be found on the Paddy Power website and Paddy Power app, otherwise, our experts’ tips for the final race on day four of the 2024 Cheltenham Festival are below.
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Cheltenham 5.30 tips
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Matt Chapman: TEDDY BLUE is a massive price for Niall Houlihan and Gary Moore, but I think he might defy the odds. He’s on a mark of 131 despite finishing second in a handicap at Haydock in May last year off 132. This season he hasn’t been disgraced in the Lanzarote at Kempton or when fourth in behind Mothill at Ascot last time. It might be this trip stretches his stamina, but at the odds I’ll risk it.
Mick Fitzgerald: It’s easy to forget with the Mullins’ bandwagon rolling on that Henry De Bromhead has had another great Festival. WATERFORD WHISPERS was second in a Novice Handicap Hurdle over this trip at the Dublin Racing Festival and is still very lightly raced so there’s plenty of room for improvement. This race has a rare roll call of winners in the past including, Galopin Des Champs. Mullins saddles the unexposed Quai De Bourbon who also fits the ‘could be anything bracket’.
Ruby Walsh: Willie Mullins has QUAI DE BOURBON at the top of the market and he could be ahead of the handicapper. OCASTLE DES MOTTES makes appeal to me as he will show improvement from stepping up in trip.
Timeform: Henry de Bromhead kicked off the Festival in style on Tuesday and he can bring down the curtain with WATERFORD WHISPERS, who is improving in leaps and bounds and can have his runner-up effort at Leopardstown over Christmas upgraded given the race wasn’t run to suit. Quai de Bourbon is 2-2 for Willie Mullins and he can provide most resistance now handicapping, with last year’s runner-up No Ordinary Joe rounding off the shortlist despite his yard’s much publicised exasperating week.
Cheltenham Day 4 Tips
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- Paddy Power’s epic Friday cheat sheet of Cheltenham tips for day four
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