Firm offers refund if Hurricane Fly wins Champions Hurdle at Cheltenham to punters delight
The Cheltenham Festival is imminent as Paddy Power release their Hurricane Fly money back offer for punters on the Champion Hurdle.
The Dublin based firm is a definite crowd pleaser at the pinnacle of the jumps season, the 2013 Cheltenham Festival, as horse racing fans and punters rub shoulders with the best of the best to take in the high quality Grade One racing from Prestbury Park in Gloucester.
Each year this popular bookmaker release an offer to appease the punters, and this year is no different as the firm announce they will refund losing bets if Hurricane Fly wins the feature race on Day one of the Festival, the Champion Hurdle.
Paddy Power Hurricane Fly Cheltenham Money Back Special
If Hurricane Fly wins the Champion Hurdle Paddy Power will refund all losing bets on the race! New customers can also pick up with a new free bets offer worth £250/€250 to customers to spend on any Cheltenham race! Claim here!
Top Irish jockey Ruby Walsh is confirmed to ride the ante post favourite, who won the race in 2011, and the horse is heavily backed to repeat that success this year, moving into a solid price of 7/4.
Paddy Power commented :“I’d say it’s our best ever offer yet,”
“We’ve had the usual fight with the traders and many were crying into their hands when the decision was made. I like to call the offer generous, but they think it’s suicide.”
Its certain to be a very popular release from the well known Irish bookmaker, and with the whole wave of Irish horse racing fans coming over, and record amounts of Guinness to be drunk, there appears to be plenty of scope for punters.
Other leading contenders are Rock On Ruby, who beat Hurricane Fly by over five lengths last year in securing the 2012 Champion Hurdle Crown, but has really failed to impress after a disappointing International Hurdle at Cheltenham for assistant trainer Harry Fry.
Paul Nicholls will be hoping his first choice in the race, Zarkandar can follow up his form in that race with victory in the 2013 Champion Hurdle.
The horse also won the International Hurdle in Cheltenham and should go better than last year’s fifth place in the Champion Hurdle.
Nicky Henderson’s hopes lie with Grandouet, who is currently a 6/1 shot and should go close as third favourite, although his price is set to certain in the run up to the Festival.
The Festival as a whole has grown in stature, rivaling the Grand National, and horse racing fans acknowledge that the Cheltenham Festival is the top Group One horse racing event in the UK, if not the world, featuring the cream of the jump racing crop.
All tickets are currently sold out, with the feature race the Cheltenham Gold Cup, rounding off the week on Friday 15th March.
The Champion Hurdle is the feature race at Day One of the Festival, and takes place on Tuesday 12th March at 15:20 GMT
