Festival Focus - The Handicaps

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I falsely claimed at the end of my Gold Cup preview that it would be my last Festival Focus of 2013, however with the release of the handicap weights for the festival this week I’ve been lured in to some ante-post bets on several of the handicap contests throughout the week in spite of vowing not to get involved in them early this year.

My complete run down of the Graded events at the festival can be viewed here but here I plan on having a brief look at my leading fancies in several of the week’s big handicap races.

First up is the JLT Speciality Handicap Chase and having suggested Our Mick as the one to be on in this race at 14/1 in my Gold Cup preview he is now a best priced 8/1 so we’re sitting a little pretty there.