Newbury's meeting on Saturday March 5th may not have highlighted too many Cheltenham Festival clues in the races that were staged, mainly due to its close proximity to the start of the Cotswold extravaganza. However a series of gallops that took place on the racecourse on Sunday morning may well seen a few potential Festival winners on show and those looking at the Cheltenham racing betting should bear this in mind.
One such horse was the Warren Greatrex trained Knight Pass. The five-year-old is currently one at the top of most ante-post lists for the Weatherbys Champion Bumper, and he certainly looked a worthy favourite as he put in a very impressive gallop under his big-race pilot Wayne Hutchinson.
Greatrex's stable star is unbeaten in two bumper starts, he won impressively at Sandown on his first start when he could count subsequent Grade 2 winning hurdler Sire De Grugy amongst his victims. He then followed up with a very cosy win on the turf at Southwell in early January, where he toyed with his opponents before running out a four-length winner. Anyone looking to bet on Cheltenham 2011 should take note of what was an impressive performance.
Since then his trainer has kept him ticking over at home in preparation for the Champion Bumper, and judged on his Newbury spin he has done a great job as he looks spot on and ready to run a very big race. Knight Pass runs in the colours of Malcolm Denmark who also owned the brilliant, but injury plagued, Monsignor who won the Festival Champion Bumper in 1999.
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