Fighting Fifth Hurdle Tips & Preview

With the UK horse racing scene firmly focused on national hunt season and as all road to the Cheltenham Festival, we’re now focusing on some of the feature races that will likely send runners to the biggest Cheltenham horses racing fixtures.

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Fighting Fight Hurdle Betting Preview

The first stop on our tour of UK horse racing is Newcastle, as it hosts one of the premier National Hunt races of the season, the Fighting Fifth Hurdle. A key filter race for the 2022 Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, former winners of this race include Buveur D’Air, My Tent Or Yours and most recently Epatante.

It seems as though Epatante will be back to defend his crown once again with Sceau Royal once again linking up to try and take the crown for trainer Alan King. Epatante will likely line up against a maximum of six rivals, with Silver Streak and Monmiral also expected to make the journey to Newcastle for the race.

Looking at the form across the racecard and the previous form, which includes runs at the Kempton Winter Festival and at Cheltenham, we’re going for Silver Streak to put his two-mile form on the line and take the victory for trainer Evan Williams.

Elsewhere at Newcastle, there are six other races on the card, three of which will feature on ITV, and for those races, we’ve picked out our betting tips below: