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Shark Hanlon: 'Galopin Des Champs didn't impress me at all in the Irish Gold Cup - on that run he's vulnerable'
The sport's top judges answer the key Cheltenham Festival questions. This time, it's popular trainer Shark Hanlon . . .
What's your best bet of the meeting?
Willie Mullins to train ten winners or more. I was at a preview the other night and somebody somehow laid me 3-1. I think that's an unbelievable price. I've never known him to have a better team than the one he has going over this year and I expect him to get to double figures at his leisure.
What do you make of the Champion Hurdle?
State Man is an absolute certainty. Move on.
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- Tom Segal: 'He looks very dangerous on soft ground and the nearer the race gets the more I fancy him to upset State Man'
- 'I think he's got a stone in hand' - our Ultimate Cheltenham Preview panellists give their festival bankers
- Davy Russell: 'I thought I was going to win the whole way until two aeroplanes whizzed past me, so he might win it this year'
- Paul Nicholls: 'I like this horse a lot and I'd say he has a nice chance at 10-1'
more inThe Ultimate Cheltenham Preview Night
- 'I could see him being a big, big player' - our Ultimate Cheltenham Preview panellists with their dark horses
- Tom Segal: 'He looks very dangerous on soft ground and the nearer the race gets the more I fancy him to upset State Man'
- 'I think he's got a stone in hand' - our Ultimate Cheltenham Preview panellists give their festival bankers
- Davy Russell: 'I thought I was going to win the whole way until two aeroplanes whizzed past me, so he might win it this year'
- Paul Nicholls: 'I like this horse a lot and I'd say he has a nice chance at 10-1'