William Hill Tingle Creek Chase betting and odds preview

Events / Editor / 20 October 2007 / Leave a Comment

Named after a star two mile chaser of the 1970's, Sandown's Tingle Creek Chase is a Grade 1 event that attracts the highest calibre of chasers.

Always a strong betting race on the day and a massive indicator to the ante-post odds for the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham the following March, the role-call of winners reads like a 'Who's Who' of National Hunt racing.

The betting public has latched on to the fact that favourites have a sound record in the contest and the odds are that whatever prevails here, will subsequently head the ante-post betting market at fairly cramped odds for the two-mile championship.

Trainer Paul Nicholls has won four of the last eight renewals, most recently with Kauto Star in 2005 & 2006, whilst Irish raiders have landed plenty of bets in recent years taking four of the last 12 runnings - twice with Sound Man and twice more with Moscow Flyer.