Graham Buddry takes a look at the key riders chasing Festival glory again this year

Cheltenham comes but once a year, or at least the Festival does and it allows us an almost unique advantage over those devilish bookie fellows.
In the same way as the old adage “horses for courses”, which identifies those four legged heroes which like left or right handed, flat or undulating, sharp or galloping courses etc, so it applies here to the jockeys too.
We’ve been looking at the apparent trends here for quite a number of years now and although, like anything else in life, sometimes seemingly strange...