Khrisma is 7\/2 favourite with the sponsors after 30 horses were entered for Saturday\u2019s Betfair Imperial Cup at Sandown.<\/p>\n
The six-year-old has won two of her three starts to date for JP McManus and Nicky Henderson including when scoring at Market Rasen last month.<\/p>\n
A \u00a3100,000 bonus is on offer if the winner of the Esher feature goes on to taste success at next week\u2019s Cheltenham Festival and Khrisma<\/a> holds entries in both the Ryanair Mares\u2019 Novices\u2019 Hurdle<\/a> and William Hill County Hurdle<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mondo Man<\/a> is second favourite at 6\/1 for joint-trainers Gary and Josh Moore. Previously a high-class Flat performer in France, he opened his account for the new team with a bloodless success at Plumpton last time when sent off the 1\/7 favourite.<\/p>\n Chris Gordon\u2019s hat-trick seeing General Briar<\/a> and Rubber Ball<\/a>, a well-backed winner at Newbury last time for Neil King, are both 8\/1.<\/p>\n Go Dante<\/a>, winner of the last two Imperial Cups, is 16\/1 to continue his remarkable sequence but needs to bounce back having been pulled-up at Newbury last time.<\/p>\n Betfair Spokesperson, James Mackie said: \u201cThe 2026 Betfair Imperial Cup sees 30 runners head to post for Sandown\u2019s Saturday feature contest at the latest declaration stage, and I am very much looking forward to seeing a big field battle it out for such a valuable prize. A \u00a3100,000 bonus is on offer to the connections of the winner should the same horse go on to win any race at Cheltenham next week.<\/p>\n \u201cNicky Henderson and JP McManus have the clear 7\/2 favourite with County Hurdle hope at the Cheltenham Festival in Khrisma. The mare is currently 7\/1 second favourite for the Friday race at the Festival, and on Saturday if officially entered will be looking to give Henderson his first win in the race since 2009.<\/p>\n \u201cMondo Man for the Gary Moore team is the exciting second favourite at 5\/1 and will be looking to exploit his mark of 123 to give the Moore team a first win in the contest.<\/p>\n \u201cLast year\u2019s first, second, and third are set to do battle again this year in the 2026 renewal with the Olly Murphy trained Go Dante a 12\/1 chance to land a hat-trick of wins in the race.<\/p>\n \u201cWreckless Eric was a good second in the race last year and is 14\/1 to go one better this season, with Betfair ambassador Paul Nicholls looking to land the race for a third time in seven years with 12\/1 chance Afadil. The Ditcheat trainer could also field 25\/1 shout Nardaran.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Sporting LifeSafer gambling<\/p>\n We are committed in our support of safer gambling. Recommended bets are advised to over-18s and we strongly encourage readers to wager only what they can afford to lose.<\/p>\n If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline \/ GamCare<\/a> on 0808 8020 133.<\/p>\n Further support and information can be found at begambleaware.org<\/a> and gamblingtherapy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khrisma is 7\/2 favourite with the sponsors after 30 horses were entered for Saturday\u2019s Betfair Imperial Cup at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-328039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}