Cheltenham Festival Tips Day 3: The Storyteller the pick in the Stayers' Hurdle

We're at the halfway mark at the Cheltenham Festival and whilst we saw more short priced favourites go in on Wednesday in the shape of Bob Olinger, Monkfish and Sir Gerhard, Thursday looks a lot more open with the exception of Envoi Allen who goes in the opening Marsh Novices' Chase at 13:20.

@TwoPoundPunt is back with another four selections for Thursday's racing.

Wednesday yielded a winner and two placed and a £1 each-way Lucky15 would have yielded £62.79 (below).

7 places here is standout and I will reback one of the antepost picks in Imperial Alcazar. Has good form on both good to soft and soft with 50% and 75% places rates respectively. 3 wins over hurdles including here on New Years Day last year. I’d personally love to see the FOB twitter account go nuts if he delivers here.

I am a frequent backer of Mister Fisher and like above he is one of my antepost bets. With 5 places on offer he must go in the Lucky15. 4 runs on good to soft have returned 3 wins and he was placed in the other. He is 1 for 1 over 2m5f and has 2 wins from 5 runs at the track, the latest a win here in December beating Kalashnikov.

A super consistent performer and his 11 runs over hurdles have seen him finish in the places 9 times. He has run 3 times at the track winning 1 and placing in another. The win was in the Brown Advisory Plate 2018 and he was 2nd in the Pertemps last year. He rarely runs a bad race and goes in as leg 3.

Ticks all three major boxes here for me with wins over the ground, distance and at the track. Those 2 Cheltenham wins came here in November and December. Both jockey Richard Patrick and trainer Kerry Lee show a + P/L at the track (last 3 years) and the fact both the lads from my site also fancy it makes me feel this should be well in mix.