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WITH an expected 300,000 pints of Guinness expected to be sunk during the four days of the Cheltenham Festival, the place will be rocking especially after last year’s ghost town of an event.

I fancy a pint a day will do for me, but if I can outline just the one bet this afternoon then it simply has to be the Willie Mullins-trained GAELIC WARRIOR (4.50, Nap) in the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices’s Handicap Hurdle.

Yet to race in Britain or Ireland, he was a very smart hurdler in France splitting two of their very best juveniles there. A handicap mark of 129 could see him thrown in here and I expect he will be racing in graded company after this.