Cheltenham Festival Tips Day 4: Back Al Boum Photo for the Threepeat

It's Gold Cup day at Cheltenham Festival and @TwoPoundPunt is back with another four bets and a Lucky 15 for Friday's racing action from Prestbury Park.

Thursday's selections included two placed efforts which will have just about got your money back if you'd backed the each way lucky 15.

This afternoon's selections come from the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle, the Gold Cup, Mares Chase and Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle.

The Lucky 15 pays 2007/1 with Paddy Power.

Good luck if you're following!

As his name suggests, this horse has some series pedigree. Born out of the 4-time Stayers’ winner Cheltenham hero Big Bucks. Barbados Bucks himself has a perfect record over the ground conditions and has placed in seven of eight races going left handed, winning four. He comes here looking for four wins in a row and would be shocked if he is not involved come the finish.

The biggest race of the festival and Al Boum Photo is looking to land the Gold Cup for the third year running. I have actually opposed him the last two times and but love a good story. His stats probably don’t need much explaining but he is two for two on the ground, two for two over the distance and two from three at the track. A win here would make him the first horse to win the Gold Cup three times in a row since Best Mate.

Bit of a cliff horse for me but Shattered Love has served me well. The only horse in the race to have won at the track, albeit two have not run here before. Ground won’t be an issue and she handles the trip. If she can run anywhere near her JLT Novices’ chase in 2018 she should be competitive here.

A very interesting horses for the final race of the festival. Just four runs to his name with the last 3 in the UK all on pretty heavy ground. The big pull factor for this horse was result of his last race in February at Leopardstown. He finished 6th at 100/1 however the horses ahead of him included Appreciate It, Ballyadam, Blue Lord. He was nine lengths behind Appreciate It who of course went on to win the Supreme by a monstrous 24 lengths!