Horse Racing Betting Tips: Copperhead and Minella Indo look most likely to become RSA champs
Reported today on City AM
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AP MCCOY was a truly extraordinary sportsman and the horse
named after him, Champ, will be many punters' idea of the banker in today's RSA
Insurance Novices' Chase (2.10pm).Nicky Henderson's son of King's Theatre had finished first
or second on his first 11 starts, but last time in the Dipper Novices' Chase at
Cheltenham on New Year's Day he fell at the second last with the race seemingly
in the bag.It is never ideal coming to the Festival on the back of a
fall and he will have to sharpen up his jumping if he is to see off some very
promising novice chasers.I wasn't particularly taken with him at Newbury the time
before, so at just 3/1 with Sporting Index Odds I will be looking elsewhere.Colin Tizzard has an abundance of talent within his Dorset
yard and he must be thrilled with the progress shown by COPPERHEAD this
season.His chasing debut at Chepstow in October was a little
underwhelming, but two handicap successes in December followed by an incredible
display in the Grade One Reynoldstown Novices' Chase at Ascot last month, have
seen his rating fly from 125 to 155.Regular readers of this column will have a nice ante-post
slip in their wallet, as we backed him at 16/1 prior to Ascot and he is now no
bigger than 9/2.I'm still very keen on his chances, and he will love the
ground, but I also think it's worth adding last year's Albert Bartlett winner MINELLA
INDO to the portfolio.He was one of the biggest shocks of the Festival when
landing that staying prize for novice hurdlers at 50/1, but he proved it was no
fluke when following up in another Grade One at the Punchestown Festival.Henry De Bromhead's seven-year-old has only had two starts
over fences, which is a lighter campaign than you normally want in this race,
but he is an out and out stayer who has won four from
