Wednesday Cheltenham Festival tips and best bets for Day 2

Mar 10, 2026 - 19:30

talkSPORT have you covered with horse racing tips looking at the best bets on every day of Cheltenham Festival, including Day 2 of the meeting on Wednesday 11th March.

talkSPORT’s horse racing tipster Tom Lunn has gone through the racecard, form, going, race replays, and much more to help guide your horse racing betting at Cheltenham Festival.

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Cheltenham Festival Wednesday Tips

1.20, Turners Novices’ Hurdle: King Rasko Grey 13/2
2.00, Brown Advisory Chase: Wendigo 8/1
2.40, BetMGM Cup: Jingko Blue 11/1
3.20, Cross Country: Stumptown 3/1
4.00, Champion Chase: Il Etait Temps 9/2
4.40, Grand Annual: Vanderpoel 8/1 & Personal Ambition 18/1

All tips 1pt each unless otherwise stated. 5/1+ are each-way

King Rasko Grey

Another Willie Mullins-trained horse that could surprise a few with a nice price, was around 8’s in the ante-post market when initially tipped for this race.

The six-year-old gelding was also listed in the 2025/26 jumps horses to watch this season.

Mullins approaches this festival in great form and this horse, though he has only been seen twice over hurdles was a very close third at Leopardstown in the Grade 1 Tattersalls Ireland Novice Hurdle.

Finishing just half a length behind Talk The Talk at 11/2 seems to be underestimated for the top trainer.

That form is solid too as Talk The Talk has won three from four hurdles already and it proves King Rasko Grey is still dangerously unexposed.

The favourite No Drama This End comes from trainer Paul Nicholls faces a tough task of preventing Mullins from winning this for the fourth time in just five of the last Turners.

Wendigo

Unsure where Wendigo will go at this stage before the declarations, but is 8/1 to land the Brown Advisory Chase and also tipped for the Ultima, but not for an ante-post punt.

Won with plenty in hand last time out against Maximilian in a small field at Ayr after a decent third place finish behind Kitzbuhel at Kempton and looks set for this step up to 3m.

Should be prominent and there abouts as a solid each-way punt, better still he remains 8/1 as he was in the ante-post where he’s now being angled to just this race rather than having.

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Jingko Blue

The Coral Cup this year is another fascinating one. Jimmy Du Seuil won it last year and there’s often times this race comes out with a big priced winner due to the nature of having 24 runners going over hurdles in a handicap.

The key does seem to be finding a runner that isn’t as exposed, for instance eight out of the last ten winners have only been seen over these obstacles a maximum of nine times.

Storm Heart may well prefer more juice in the ground as his latest wins and good form have all come on heavy, can he fare just as well on good to soft?

Farren Glory was a close third behind Storm Heart last time out yet is a massive price and could warrant an each-way bet as he can go well on good ground while also being Jack Kennedy’s mount for trainer Gordon Elliott which is interesting.

However, Jingko Blue seems to tick a lot of boxes and after a couple of winners and a decent enough performance from Lulamba on Tuesday, the Nicky Henderson-trained horse is also another great each-way shout.

This seven-year-old has bags of ability and a fair bit of consistency but still hasn’t quite hit his peak enough and this is exactly where they can show that in this race.

Stumptown

Another race where consistency is key, especially when it comes to this kind of stamina and jumping.

Both are tested in abundance and it’s hard to look past Stumptown even if he’s running off top-weight.

He won this race last year when carrying top-weight by seven lengths and he’s been lightly raced since, with one of those being the Grand National before being waited with to race in October.

Loves Cheltenham and the Cross Country course having won over it twice in his last two runs and placed third in April 2024 here in a handicap chase, lots to like about this determined nine-year-old.

Il Etait Temps

After the news of Marine Nationale withdrawing from the Champion Chase due to an injury, more support was directed to Majborough.

He was already the favourite before that scratch but is now an even stronger contender.

He’s just six-years-old coming into this feature Grade 1 contest, but seemed to take a huge step forward in February at the Dublin Racing Festival winning the Ladbrokes Dublin Chase beating Marine Nationale by a staggering 19 lengths.

Prior to this he’d placed close behind Solness at Leopardstown and Found A Fifty at Cork.

But he was 1/2 favourite for the Arkle last year and was beaten by Jango Baie and still hasn’t quite shown for me, the consistency in winning you’d maybe want from a short priced favourite.

Il Etait Temps has won seven of his ten chases which of course doesn’t include his latest run at Ascot in the Clarence House Chase, but all his runs prior to that showed he has the ability and progression to win a Champion Chase.

Vanderpoel & Personal Ambition

Promising seven-year-old who has now won 2-2 over fences having not quite got the hang of chasing in his previous two races.

Won two from three over hurdles before pulling up at Kelso in March last year and is clearly a talented horse with that winning ability.

Raised 7lb for that last win but he did so with some in hand and that win at Ascot in December has worked out very well with subsequent races from rivals and beyond.

Similarly, from the same yard Personal Ambition could be one to watch running for the third time over fences this season.

Pulled up at Newbury on soft ground over 2m4f in November before a disappointing Grade 2 show, but the novice chaser seemed to thrive back down to 2m.

Beating Quebecois last time out was a surprise, but it’s also not the best test as that horse is better over around 3m, as he showed at Cheltenham Festival on Day One, when placing narrowly behind Johnnywho.

But there’s still an each-way shout in there.

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Tom Lunn’s Horse Racing Profit & Loss

From October ’25: 26.15pts
From March ’25: +96.28pts
From May ’24: +266.66pts
From Oct ’23: +306.13pts

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