Graham Buddry with his expert assessment of the Festival riders

Graham Buddry
For a number of years now I have written a regular piece for Racing Ahead Magazine about the specific jockey preferences for the Cheltenham Festival and generally they have held true year after year. I am, however, sometimes asked why I don’t feature more jockeys and also why I run a particular line over the trainer, Paul Nicholls.
To answer the last question first, I became aware some years back that since the great days of Kauto Star, this brilliant trainer had struggled to have winners at th…