Handicap hopes: Your EW Cheltenham Festival Super Yankee

When the discarded betting slips are swept up Friday, the regrets will focus almost totally on the championship races, ignoring the fact 10 contests, or almost 40% of the total, are handicaps.

They don’t get much publicity, mostly because they are rally cars at a Formula One meeting and, even at this point, there remains uncertainty on runners and riders. But they tend to be the best betting heats, so to reassert the esteem of the poor handicappers, here is a Festival ‘E/W Super-Yankee.’

Five horses at generous prices with alternatives for the inevitable risk of non-runners.