A busy Friday with Cheltenham's November meeting taking centre stage. Here are the thoughts of our Racing Factors tipster.
Cheltenham
J: Harry Skelton
T: D Skelton
Valgrand showed some decent form in bumpers last season and finished a good 4th of 18 in a grade 2 contest at Aintree. However he has taken his form to another level over hurdles this year and made it 3 wins from 3 over timber when destroying his rivals here at Cheltenham by 17 lengths last month. Valgrand travelled powerfully from the front that day and really quickened up in the manner of a smart horse to win going away. The extra 5f today should be no problems at all and a similar performance would make him very hard to beat. Valgrand rates a 4 star win Pick.