OPTIMUM RACING

Andrew Lowrie previews Cheltenham’s big two races

The two big Championship Steeplechases at the Cheltenham Festival are the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase and the Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup.
The former race, run on the Wednesday of the four-day meeting, promises to be a tremendous battle between three outstanding chasers.
Badsworth Boy is the only horse to have won three Champion Chases and you have to go back 35 years for the last of his three successive victories.
This year Altior gets the opportunity to emulate the Michael Dickinson trained chest...