Paul Ferguson’s Cheltenham Festival Betting Guide: Handicaps Special | 8/1 & 5/1 NAPs
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
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| 0:17.8 | Recording exactly one week from the beginning of the Cheltenham Festival. This is the Final Forlund podcast, Handicap Special in Association with Weatherby's Cheltenham Festival Bedding Guide, the author of which is Paul Ferguson, and he's alongside us. And a very special guest also joining us is the new chair of the BHA. Adam Mills, congratulations on your appointment. We look forward to your leadership. And I, for one, very much support your new dictatorship. Yeah, thanks, Emmett. You're still not getting an exclusive interview, so I'm not in my ass. Plenty of handicaps to get stuck into. Paul has managed to narrow it down to a window of a select few. So we're going to begin with the first handicap of Chutland, 2026, which is the Fred Winter, the juvenile hurdlers, the betting what one-ex bet is headed by Saratoga in Ireland. |
| 0:56.7 | Paul Ferguson, who are you drawn to in this race? |
| 0:58.5 | I think, obviously, the top of the market. I think it's a really deep race, obviously, tends to be quite a competitive handicap. One of the more competitive handicaps throughout the week. I think a case can be made for several towards the top of the market. |
| 1:10.1 | It's such Saturday Toga's a pretty obvious one of months of coming out from the same. |
| 1:13.5 | Nice race, as you say. Man Lager was pretty impressed with at Haydock. I think she'll go well. But one who I thought was just overpriced of the form from early in the season was a little bit overlooked, was a horse called Ben Hare, trained by Noel Mead. |
| 1:32.1 | We haven't seen him actually since Boxing Day when he finished fifth behind Narcy. |
| 1:35.2 | So Hass and the grade two at Leopards Town, just behind Barbers on, |
| 1:37.8 | who had beaten him on debut at Nav and I thought that was a decent race. |
| 1:42.2 | On his second start, he came out and travelled really well when Winning Easley, |
| 1:43.2 | a Fairy House. |
| 1:45.6 | Looks like he's being kept back for this. |
| 1:49.8 | Just had the three runs, which is something that's a positive when you're looking at the trends, obviously, |
| 1:52.4 | keeping your hand away from the handicapped as much as possible. |
| 1:56.5 | And I just thought a 50 to 1 in comparison to Barbizon, |
| 1:59.9 | who he's twice run just close behind a 20 to 1. I thought Ben Hare was slightly overpriced and could outrun those odds. I really like that. I'm very intrigued to hear what Adam Mills has to say as well, because obviously you're going to know all the French form for us too. And on that note, there's a horse that I like that you cannot have. So bear in mind that as I put this horse forward, if you're watching on YouTube, just look at Adam Mills' face. You'll see his head |
| 2:22.4 | turn left and right very quickly. And also there'll be a few eyebrows being raised as well. But I do |
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