The two big races tomorrow, the BoyleSports Becher Chase at Aintree and the Betfair Tingle Creek Chase, could hardly be more different contests. The former is a 12-runner competitive handicap run over three miles and two furlongs on the Grand National course, the latter is an eight-runner Grade 1 race, with all the horses running off the same weight, over a shade under two miles.
The Becher (Aintree 2.07 p.m.) is a keen betting contest, while the Tingle Creek (Sandown, 3p.m.) has an odds-on favourite in Jonbon, who has never been out of the first two in 18 runs and, given his consistency, it is difficult to find each-way value elsewhere in the field.
I have already put up one horse, Gaboriot, for the Becher. Those odds of 10-1 four places look tasty now but we have been here before, with a double-figure odds in the bag, and the horse has failed to land the spoils: most recently with Broadway Boy, brave though he was in defeat, in last week’s Coral Gold Cup.
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