Cheltenham Festival day 3 tips and best bets as Garry Owen goes for Gold Tweet and Appreciate It

The Cheltenham Festival is in full swing and now punters are looking ahead to the third day for some bookie bashing.

Our man Garry Owen has picked out his best bets and selections and don't forget to follow him every day in Record Sport .

1.30 APPRECIATE IT

2.10 THANKSFORTHEHELP

2.50 BLUE LORD

3.30 GOLD TWEET (NAP)

4.10 DATSALRIGHTGINO

4.50 LOT OF JOY

5.30 ROYAL THIEF

GOLD TWEET (3.30) can wing-it for France in the Stayers’ Hurdle on Day Three of the Cheltenham Festival. Gab Leenders’ raider can resume Gallic dominance of an event that they liked to target in the 2000s. The six-year-old developed into a Grade 1-placed chaser for his Loire-based handler back in 2021. However, he showed he was still a force over hurdles when third to Ladyville at Toulouse in October. The gelding then relished returning to 2m 4f when decisively despatching Portivy at Fontainebleau. The bay ran another stormer when second to the talented Rosario Baron back down in trip at Pau. Those sterling performances led Leenders to go for the Grade 2 Cleeve Hurdle on Trials Day here. And the son of On Est Bien fully justified that decision by absolutely bolting up from Dashel Drasher . The bold-galloper is nicely unexposed over three miles so he can prove that triumph was no fluke.

APPRECIATE IT (1.30) can keep Willie Mullins’ bandwagon rolling in the Turners Novices’ Chase. The gelding was a triple Grade 1-winning hurdler but his future always lay over the larger obstacles. And he duly opened his account at the first time of asking when caning Top Bandit at Punchestown. The nine-year-old continued to build his reputation by impressively defeating Gaelic Arc at Naas. He wasn’t disgraced again when third to the brilliant El Fabiolo in