2016 Cheltenham Festival ante post plays: My Tent Or Yours in Champion Hurdle

David Metcalf | January 21, 2016

Irish trainer Willie Mullins’ domination off the ante-post Cheltenham Festival markets is strongest in the Champion Hurdle, for which he has the top three fancies, but My Tent Or Yours looks decent value at 8/1 to spoil the party.

The gelding is yet to finish out of the frame in 14 starts under rules and has won six of his 10 starts over hurdles.

After finishing a fine second in the 2013 running of the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, My Tent Or Yours went on to land a Grade 2 contest at Aintree before securing a brace of Grade 1 successes in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle and Christmas Hurdle at Kempton.

The Nicky Henderson trained nine-year-old was then off the track for 14 months, and after making a winning return to action in a bumper at Kempton ran a cracker to finish runner-up to Jezki in the 2014 Champion Hurdle.

My Tent Or Yours in winning form

My Tent Or Yours came with a strong run after the last to go down by a diminishing 1/4 of a length, and finished 4 3/4 lengths in front of the fourth home Hurricane Fly.

Hurricane Fly was beaten 6 1/2 lengths when third to Faugheen in last year’s renewal, so on a line through Willie Mullins legend there is not much between the current red-hot 4/7 jolly Faugheen and My Tent Or Yours.

My Tent Or Yours was then not at his best when third in the Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr, and has been on the sidelines with injury ever since.