Cheltenham Day 2 Tips: Why Tiger Roll is among the favourites to oppose on Wednesday at the Festival

I'm going to stick my neck out and make Tiger Roll the banker lay in the Glenfarclas Chase at 16:10.

The dual Grand National winner has won this race three times - in 2018, 2019, and again last March - but he is 12 now and could be vulnerable to a younger rival.

Queen Mother betting looks lopsided

The odds of the first three in the betting for the Queen Mother Champion Chase at 15:30 do not reflect their ability. The handicappers on either side of the Irish Sea rate Shishkin, Chacun Pour Soi and Energumene in that order but within 2lb of each other. Yet their Exchange odds are 2.01/1, 8.07/1 and 5.04/1 respectively.

Shishkin only has to make one error more than the others to be in danger of losing the race.

It took all of Ascot's two-miles-and-a-furlong Clarence House Chase for Shishkin to master Energumene and get home a length in front. The Champion Chase is 240 yards shorter, but with an uphill finish that Shishkin is familiar with.

The favourite won the Supreme here in 2019 and the Arkle last year, so he has a significant advantage over Energumene when it comes to course experience.

Chacun Pour Soi was beaten at odds-on in this race last year, finishing behind Nube Negra that day, and again when odds-on for the Betfair Tingle Creek at Sandown in December.

However, Patrick Mullins' mount is rated 8lb higher than Dan Skelton's stable star, because his overall form in Ireland - six Grade 1 victories - is considerably better than Nube Negra's here in England. Chacun Pour Soi just hasn't been able to show that form in UK Grade 1s, and may be a poor traveller.

I won't recommend a lay. It's a race which I am happy to watch.

Mullins runners can thwart American Mike

Ducking the two handicaps with big fields and 6/1 and 7/1 favourites, that leaves the Champion Bumper at 17:30.

Willie Mullins has seven of the 21 runners, including five of the first seven in the betting. In the last decade, he has won the closing race on the second day five times but none were favourite: Champagne Fever was 16/1, Briar Hill 25/1, Relegate 25/1, Ferny Hollow 11/1, and last year Sir Gerhard came late on the scene to collar his better-fancied stablemate odds-on shot Kilcruit.

The only serious rival in the betting to Mullins' Facile Vega is Gordon Elliott's American Mike, a wide-margin maiden point-to-point winner that has won his bumpers at Navan and Down Royal with notable ease. There is lots to like about him and the form stands up, but he has yet to run at a top track.

Facile Vega, Redemption Day and James's Gate, in contrast, have done their winning at Leopardstown and Punchestown.

Maybe I'm clutching at a straw to make a case for American Mike getting beaten, but Elliott 's previous winners of the race - Envoi Allen and Fayonagh - came via the top tracks rather than Down Royal and Navan.

There has to be a possibility that American Mike, good as he is, will be overwhelmed by the occasion. At 3.814/5 that seems a chance worth taking.