Guide to Champion Bumper Cheltenham

Historically, the finale to Wednesday's card at the Festival has unearthed some future stars, with the likes of Florida Pearl and more recently Dunguib and Cue Card taking the Champion Bumper.

Warren Greatrex's Knight Pass is the 10/1 ante-post favourite after two impressive performances at Sandown Park and Southwell. Carrying top weight he cruised to the front under Wayne Hutchinson and bounded clear by four lengths to propel himself to Bumper favouritism.

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Bold Optimist is next in the market at 14/1 with Coral after winning a Leopardstown bumper by two-and-a-half lengths for Gordon Elliott. Sent off the 11/8 favourite that day he managed to outpace his rivals late on but the time was extremely slow that day and he is unlikely to be in the finish in this hotter race.

Philip Hobbs' Persian Snow (20/1 various) was an impressive winner when winning by six lengths from Balding Banker of Paul Nicholls at Ascot and could be an improver and warrants respect.

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One race to take a close look at is the national hunt flat race from the end of Cheltenham's New Year's Day card. Keys (16/1 various) beat Cinders and Ashes (20/1 Skybet) by a short head with Nicky Henderson's Trozulon (25/1 Paddy Power) three-and-a-quarter lengths back.

It was a gruelling contest with Roger Charlton's Keys just gaining the upper hand late but I feel that Trozulon could be the one to take out the race for the Champion Bumper.