Pendleton 25/1 for Cheltenham Festival glory on Pacha Du Polder

The gelding is a solid jumper who has won five times over fences, and ran a blinder runner-up in the Crabbie’s Fox Hunters’ Chase at Aintree last year.

Pacha Du Polder went down fighting by 3 3/4 lengths to On The Fringe, and that rival is currently 4/1 joint-favourite with Coral to land back-to-back successes in the Foxhunter at Cheltenham on Friday, March 18th.

Pendleton and Stewart family a winning match?

Pendleton said: “I’m delighted that Andy Stewart has kindly made Pacha Du Polder available for point-to-points and potentially Cheltenham.

“It’s great that an owner of Andy’s stature is putting his faith in me to ride one of his horses.”

Stewart said: “The Stewart Family are delighted that Victoria will be riding Pacha Du Polder for us in point-to-points, and who knows maybe even at Cheltenham.

“It was thrilling at Aintree as he looked the winner until Nina Carberry joined him at the last and JP McManus’ On The Fringe beat us, so this year it might be a women’s race. We are very excited about the coming months.”

Prince De Beachene currently shares favouritism at 4/1 with Coral for the Foxhunter, with former Gold Cup winner Long Run next best in at 5/1.

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