Cheltenham Festival tips: Five less considered horses to back against the favourites

Five less considered horses primed to exploit any weaknesses in the bookies' fancies

LIVELY OUTSIDER: Jockey Bryan Cooper celebrates as he passes the post after riding Franco De Port to victory in the Racing Post Novice Chase on day one of the Leopardstown Christmas Festival at in Dublin. He should relish softer going in the Arkle Chase. Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

If we knew last March what we know now, then Prestbury Park would have been a ghost track for the 2020 Festival.

But while voices outside racing loudly yelled ‘ban the biological bomb, abandon the super-spreader!’ inside the myopic bubble diehards whispered quietly: “God speed my bomb proof super-yankee.’