BetBright Best For Festival Betting Handicap Chase Odds and Preview – Horse Racing Betting January 1

Chance is Quite An Eye-Catcher in BetBright's New Year Feature

Horse Racing Betting

Saturday’s racing is ending 2016 with a bit of a damp squib but there is a cracking card to look forward to at Cheltenham at the start of 2017, when the ITV cameras take over coverage of UK racing from Channel 4 with some old and new faces.

The Grade 2 Betbright Dipper Novices’ Chase and Dornan Engineering Relkeel Hurdle are excellent support races to what is likely to be the biggest betting heat on Sunday – the BetBright Best For Festival Betting Handicap Chase.

BetBright have close ties with Cheltenham via Executive Chairman Rich Ricci. The former Barclay’s CEO has seen his silks become synonymous with National Hunt racing and the Cheltenham Festival in particular. Annie Power, Douvan, Min and countless other top-class jumpers run in the Ricci colours and BetBright have poured plenty of euros into the first fixture of the New Year at Cheltenham in the last two years.

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The Best For Festival Betting Handicap Chase is the third in a series of competitive handicap chases run over 2m4f throughout the season at Cheltenham’s big meetings and some old favourites are going into battle again. Village Vic (a best 5/1) has already been placed in the BetVictor Gold Cup and the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup and won this weekend’s race last year. He has another 14lb to carry, however, and connections of last year’s second and third – Tenor Nivernais and Top Gamble – will fancy their chances of revenge. Tenor Nivernais (a general 12/1) ran a fine race when third at Ascot on his reappearance, though is probably better going right-handed.

QUITE BY CHANCE meets Village Vic on the same terms as when finishing half-a-length behind him last time at Cheltenham but he could probably count himself unlucky having been hampered on the final circuit. He had to recover lost ground so the 7/1 on offer this time could be quite attractive if he gets a trouble-free passage and his yard continue to come up trumps on big race days. As Du Mee easily won the Grand Sefton over the National fences at Aintree last month but really needs some give in the ground and Vaniteux doesn’t have the best of records at Cheltenham so Thomas Brown (11/1 with BetVictor) may be best of the rest having failed to handle the mud last time.

BetBright Best For Festival Betting Handicap Chase Current Best Odds

Village Vic (5/1), Vaniteux (11/2), As De Mee (13/2), Quite By Chance (7/1), Top Gamble and Thomas Brown (11/1), Henri Parry Morgan and Tenor Nivernais (12/1), Shantou Flyer and Foxtail Hill (16/1), Shutthefrontdoor and Thomas Crapper (20/1), Solar Impulse (50/1)