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Cheltenham betting: Barbados Buck’s backed for Albert Bartlett glory

Barbados Buck’s may help champion trainer-elect Paul Nicholls win one of the Cheltenham Festival prizes to elude him, according to owner Andy Stewart, who says the horse has been “shooting the lights out at home”

The Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle is among the few prizes to have eluded Paul Nicholls but that might change because of the Andy Stewart-owned Barbados Buck’s, who heads into the race on the back of three spectacular hurdles wins since tackling three miles.

The six-year-old is one of the leading fancies to land the three-mile contest on Friday at Cheltenham and punters will certainly be enthusiastic after hearing Stewart’s constructive report on his charge.

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Barbados Buck’s a fast improver

Beaten on his hurdles bow in the autumn at Stratford (2m 6f, good) when he finished second to The Bull McCabe, Barbados Buck’s has won on all three begins since, together with reversing kind with Kim Bailey’s cost at Southwell over an prolonged three miles in November.

The method of that success underneath a assured Bryony Frost certainly screamed of an improving stayer and Barbados Buck’s had a couple of subsequent winners behind when defying a penalty back at the same course in December, this time within the arms of secure jockey Harry Cobden.

He rubber-stamped his Festival ticket with a trendy Kempton victory (3m½f, soft, good to delicate in places) in early January, as quickly as once more readily conceding weight to his rivals and making it 2-2 with Cobden on board.

The Albert Bartlett was recognized because the Cotswolds goal and Nicholls has been making ready him for that ever since. The Willie Mullins-trained Stattler heads the betting for the race on the Friday of the Festival however Stewart may be very eager on Barbados Buck’s chance of winning.

Stewart nails colours to the mast

Stewart’s purple, white and black colours are familiar to Festival followers. They’ve been sighted in most recent years and have been most famously carried by four-time Stayers’ Hurdle hero Big Buck’s, also trained by Nicholls.

While the likes of Ashutor (Grand Annual) and Thyme White (County Hurdle) might additionally represent the Stewart connections at subsequent week’s showpiece, the owner has no doubts that Barbados Buck’s is his best likelihood of a Cheltenham winner in 2021.

“Barbados Buck’s will have no problem with the three miles at Cheltenham so long as the bottom is not bottomless,” Stewart said. “The climate forecast seems not too dangerous and good or good to gentle could be good for him. 

“He’s been educated for the race and is taking pictures the lights out at the moment at residence. Harry Cobden rode him the opposite day and tells me he is improved a stone since he last rode him.”

Keeping it in the family

The Albert Bartlett is often a key clue to future Stayers’ Hurdle contenders and Barbados Buck’s invariably has started to invoke reminiscences of the nice Big Buck’s.

Stewart has had plenty of runners from the same family however he makes no secret of his admiration for Barbados Buck’s and is pleased to talk of him in the identical breath as his nice champion of the previous.

“We’ve had More Buck’s, Young Buck, we’ve had loads from the family,” he mentioned. “It’s very tough to have a horse who could be anything like pretty a lot as good as Big Buck’s, who gained 18 consecutive top-class races. But we really assume Barbados Buck’s is going to run a big race. He’s ever so nicely at residence.”

Pride Of Dulcote (2009) and Najaf (2010) have both completed second within the Albert Bartlett up to now for trainer Nicholls, with whom Stewart has held a long-standing alliance.

The 12-time champion trainer is about to regain his crown this spring and has been having fun with an excellent season. Adding one of many missing Cheltenham Festival Grade 1 contests to his CV is one thing each owner and coach seem keen on.

“The solely downside is that Paul hasn’t ever gained [the Albert Bartlett] and it’s been very unfortunate for him,” stated Stewart. “But he thinks this year he may have the flexibility to change that.”

At 8/1 within the betting, Barbados Buck’s certainly appears to be certainly one of Nicholls’ strongest players for Grade 1 glory at Cheltenham and nothing in Stewart’s progress report shall be placing punters off.

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