*Odds quoted on the widget are Future Racing / Antepost prices which means that if your selection does not run in the race for whatever reason – you will lose your stake under traditional Antepost rules.
Ruby Walsh’s Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle Antepost Tips:
Teahupoo
Buddy One (each-way)
Gold Tweet (each-way)
Paddy Power Media’s ‘From The Horse’s Mouth’ podcast ‘Cheltenham Countdown’ is back as host Tom Nugent picks the brains of the Cheltenham Festival’s winning-most jockey turned TV pundit Ruby Walsh and well-known journalist and broadcaster Rory Delargy.
In the second of this year’s series, the gang have looked at the Paddy Power Stayers Hurdle ahead of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
RUBY WALSH
The price of Teahupoo for the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle is more about the lack of competition in that division than what Gordon Elliott’s runner is doing on the track. He obviously beat Impaire Et Passe 14 months’ ago in the Hatton’s Grace Hurdle but Lossiemouth (in a slowly run race) kicked him out of the way this year. You look at Teahupoo and wonder. I know trainer Gordon Elliott says he’s definitely a better horse fresh and possibly the run in the Galmoy Hurdle at Gowran Park cost him the Stayers’ Hurdle crown in 2023.
He went to Cheltenham with much less running under his belt last year and won the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle. I think he is the dominant stayer in the division and he’s the one you’d definitely want to be on.
I’d hate to be opposing him.
But you kind of look at Teahupoo and think why didn’t he run at Christmas? Maybe the run in the Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse (when beaten by Lossiemouth) was too close to Christmas? I understand him not running in the Galmoy Hurdle at Gowran Park on Thursday as the turnaround for Cheltenham for a stayer is too tight. I completely get that.
But I look at him and think: ‘Connections thought that run (at Fairyhouse) was great, we’ll go straight to Cheltenham’.
I know I couldn’t anyway. You just kind of wonder why didn’t he run (at Christmas)?
Each-way options
I don’t know whether there’s one ‘lurking’ in the field, but there’s two definitely at a big enough price that interest me. Going back hurdling would definitely rejuvenate Buddy One. He hates fences. I’m not saying he’s good enough to win the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle – but he could run into a place. (He’s entered in the Galmoy Hurdle on Thursday at Gowran Park).
And the other one – who will also need to revert to hurdles – is the French horse Gold Tweet who won the Cleeve Hurdle in 2023. I thought he ran well for a long way in the Betfair Chase at Haydock last November but is he certain to stay? I’m not sure he is but I just think he’s a huge price for a race that looks very open after Teahupoo, where he to return to hurdling.
Is there a mad front- runner in the Stayers’ Hurdle here that’s going to make it a really strongly-run race. I don’t think there is. It could be a little bit tactical and that might suit Gold Tweet.
Gold Tweet and Buddy One are just each-way pokes. Teahupoo is really hard to oppose.
Ruby Walsh’s Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle Antepost Tips:
Teahupoo
Buddy One (each-way)
Gold Tweet (each-way)
*Odds quoted on the widget are Future Racing / Antepost prices which means that if your selection does not run in the race for whatever reason – you will lose your stake under traditional Antepost rules.
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