Cheltenham Head-to-Heads: World Hurdle
Big Buck’s is the talking horse in the World Hurdle betting and while one of our men likes his chatter, another is prepared to take him on “I wouldn’t discourage a bet at 9.2 as a trading option, but surely if you wanted one horse on your side in a battle against Big Buck’s, it wouldn’t be the awkward, head-in-the-air, too-clever-for-his-own-good Tidal Bay,” Will Hayler on Howard Johnson’s World Hurdle hope Graham Cunningham : I like Big Buck’s and I cannot lie. But I don’t like him enough to take 1.7 about a repeat success in this day three showpiece and Tidal Bay looks a likely candidate to trouble him now that he has found his way back to hurdling again. The problem with taking tight odds about Big Buck’s before any of his races is that you always have a strong suspicion that his tendency to idle for a brief spell as the pace increases will see him lengthen to a certain degree in the in-play market. Simon Rowlands made this point forcefully on betting.betfair.com last month and punters have various options at their disposal to try and capitalise. L
