article_snippet: PETER SCUDAMORE - Eight-time champion jockey and rider of 13 Festival winners .
article_snippet: Beaten over a shorter distance at Newbury over Christmas —
article_snippet: Won the Martin Pipe Conditional Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at last year’s meeting and has won his two races as a novice chaser.
article_snippet: The most recent of those was his authoritative three-length defeat of the highly-rated Apache Stronghold in the Grade One Topaz Novices’ Chase at Leopardstown over Christmas.
article_snippet: DON POLI, ridden by jockey Mikey Fogarty, winning the Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle last year .
article_snippet: Baradari (right) on the way to winning The Keltbray Holloway's Hurdle Race at Ascot on January 17, 2015 .
article_snippet: (Coral Cup, 2.40) Staying on really strongly when fifth in last year’s shorter Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle and was on the mark over two miles three furlongs at Ascot in December.
article_snippet: Venetia Williams won this in 2005 with Idole First.
article_snippet: (Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle, 4.40)
article_snippet: Modus ridden by Tom O'Brien winning the EBF Junior' Standard Open NH Flat Race at Cheltenham last year .
article_snippet: Eighth in this race last year and purposely saved for another crack at the prize by his Welsh trainer Robert Stephens.