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Cheltenham Festival Preview with Farringdon: Day two
Paul Townend aboard Lossiemouth after winning the Close Brothers Mares' Hurdle on day one of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse, March 11, 2025

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THE Queen Mother Champion Chase (4.00) is the highlight on day two of the Cheltenham Festival and offers a massive chance for Jonbon to lay his Cheltenham hoodoo to bed. Many of you will be shouting at me that he has won at the Prestbury Park before, but there can be little doubt that he is a better chaser away from this track.

It is for the last reason that he has to be opposed in this speedsters’ championship and the one to go to war with here has to be the admittedly mainly disappointing MARINE NATIONALE (4.00).

Former winner of the Supreme Novices Hurdle, the selection has hardly filled himself with glory over the larger obstacles, and indeed he has been beaten on his three starts over fences this season, on his debut by outsider Quilixios.

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