Totesport.com Classic Handicap Chase betting and odds preview

Events / Editor / 20 October 2007 / Leave a Comment

This gruelling, stamina-sapping Grade 3 staying chase is a solid betting heat, but is no race for the faint hearted!

Staged over three-miles-five-furlongs and 22 fences, normally on soft or heavy ground, only the most thorough stayers are up to landing the prize and establishing themselves in a prominent position in the ante-post odds betting market for the Grand National three months later.

Trainer Paul Nicholls and jockey Ruby Walsh have been very much the men for the public to bet on in this race of late, having landed the last two renewals with Eurotrek (6/1) in 2006 and Ladalko (9/2f) in 2007, the latter being the subject of some serious betting interest and many big bets on the day of the race. The odds are that this combination will once again be worth figuring on when considering a bet in the race, regardless of the odds on offer.

Whilst the race has failed to throw up any subsequent Aintree heroes, it has provided pointers to the winner of other big staying handicaps, such as the Midlands Grand National and the Becher Chase.