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Cheltenham Festival live: Snow covers racecourse but racing goes ahead on Wednesday

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The Queen Mother Champion Chase ( 4.00 ) is today ’s showpiece race.

Here is how our Telegraph Sport experts see things.

Jonbon is the preeminent two mile chaser, don’t listen to the popular argument that he does not like Cheltenham .

Nicky Henderson may have won nine Champion Hurdles but if he is synonymous with one race at the Festival it is, by virtue of the greatness of Remittance Man and dual winners Sprinter Sacre and Altior.

Jonbon has started there five times winning the Shloer twice, finishing second to Constitution Hill in the Supreme and El Fabiolo in the Arkle .

Captain Guinness did a Golden Ace’ picking up the piece of a race which had fallen apart last year but he cannot, surely, be that lucky twice.

Escaria Ten can massively outrun his odds of 50-1 in the Glenfarclas Cross-Country, a once gimmicky race which has now won its place in racegoers’ hearts, without winning it.

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