British Champions Series - National Hunt Style

[BillyHills]

After the relative success of the Qipco Trail, format rather than results, i have decided to do something similar for the new NH season. As i much prefer the jumps this will almost be twice as big and will consist of 9 different groups of races and 7 in each group. People tend to think the jump season is all about Cheltenham and i can see why, i will be covering 15 races from the Festival in March but i hope to prove that we have plenty of other top class sport from October to April. The obvious ones are the hurdles and chases over 2m and 3m which are trials for the Champion Hurdle and Gold Cup. I am adding the intermediate trip of 2m4f for the chasers and this will lead up the Ryanair and Melling Chase and will also feature decent handicaps like the Paddy Power and Byrne Group Plate. I have decided to do the top handicaps for both codes, concentrating on 2m handicaps for the hurdlers and the big staying handicaps over fences which can take in the Nationals at Aintree, Chepstow and Ayr as well as the Hennessy earlier on in the season and the finale at Sandown the bet365 Gold Cup. Novices are races i will be concentrating on a day by day basis so i'm not including anything up until the big races at the Festival. We have three championship races for novice hurdlers, the same for chasers and then one for the juveniles, the Triumph Hurdle. The final group is for Mares only, this is a decent series now for mares and deserves to be included especially now Quevega has moved aside and we will have a new crop coming through to challenge Annie Power maybe? I'm sure i read somewhere that we have a couple of new races on the calendar and if they are of any interest i will cover them as and when they appear. My staking will be open ended with anything from 0-10pts per selection depending on the strength of opinion. Races in my series; :ok

[danj2202]

Re: British Champions Series - National Hunt Style Will follow with interest BH. Just day of race or a little antepost thrown in as well?