Betfair Chase 2013 Preview

Pipe Dynaste-y - The Pond House form can continue in the Betfair Chase

It often seems like it takes forever for the national hunt season to really get going but then once it does there’s no time to catch your breath.

This Saturday truly is another day worthy of the ‘super’ tag so often haphazardly thrown around these days and the feature race of the day looks set to be an absolute humdinger.

Many are dubbing it a mini Gold Cup and they wouldn’t be far wrong with a mostly high class field of ten currently standing firm.

Gold Cup winner Bobs Worth makes his seasonal reappearance, as does last year’s winner of this race Silviniaco Conti and last year’s leading novice chaser Dynaste also makes his first start of the campaign as we get to see just how good he actually is.

Throw in former Gold Cup winner Long Run, the highly-rated Cue Card and the enigmatic veteran Tidal Bay and you have the ingredients for (forgive me) a mouth-watering Lancashire hotpot.