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Brian Ellison, trainer of King of May: "I think he's got every chance. He's a real nice horse. We bought him from France on holiday and he's just had that one run at Musselburgh. He's come on a lot for the run."

The King Of May won twice over hurdles in France last summer and the drying ground will suit him more than yesterday's heavy turf.

Lisp has won two of his four starts with jockey Wayne Hutchinson fancying the going...

The hallowed Cheltenham turf in front of the final flight of hurdles. Picture courtesy of BBC Radio 5 live's Simon Foat.

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A group of Miss Cheltenham contestants are among those who have been enjoying Ladies' Day at Cheltenham.

Among them is student Tamsin Grainger, 19, pictured on the left here. She was born and bred in Cheltenham.

"We all do charity work and they're an inspirational group of girls," she told me.

"It's a bustling atmosphere with great company. The Festival is the soul of our town."

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Winning jockey Keith Donoghue has been speaking to Cornelius Lysaght following his victory on Tiger Roll: "This means everything. If it wasn't for Gordon I wouldn't be here. I'm very grateful to him."On losing weight to ride the horse: "I lost eight pounds from yesterday to ride this horse. I did it through just running and sweating. I'm going to make up for it tonight!"

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Gordon Elliott has been speaking to Cornelius Lysaght on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra: "For Tiger Roll that's his third time winning at this festival. He's the match of Cause of Causes. I was actually worried about the ground for Cause of Causes and Tiger Roll.

"I went home yesterday and if the Cheltenham Festival had been called off I would have had a bad day but today to have two winners is unbelievable."

The next race on the ramp is the Juvenile Handicap Hurdle.

Lizzie Kelly - a winner yesterday on Coo Star Sivola - is in action again on board Espirit de Somoza but is not expected to be in the shakedown.

Eragon De Chanay has three wins from six outings over hurdles, Nube Negra won at Doncaster last time out.

BBC Radio 5 live's Clare O'Donoughue: "Becky in attendance at Cheltenham today pays no attention to form or trainers, and makes her bets based purely on how the horses look. She had a 50% success rate when we caught up with her earlier."

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After Coo Star Sivola's win was highlighted on Tuesday, the BBC Sport website's Cheltenham preview has thrown up another couple of successes today.

Hats off to 5 live commentator John Hunt, who highlighted Tiger Roll, sent off a 7-1 chance.

No sweat. Altior is back in the paddock and chilling out after victory in the Champion Chase.

Trainer Gordon Elliot scores a victory with Tiger Roll rather than the well-fancied Cause Of Causes.

He floated over the ground down the final half furlong.

All the usual fun and muck as they tackled the ups and downs of the cross-country course.

1 Tiger Roll (K M Donoghue) 7-1

2 Urgent De Gregaine (Felix de Giles) 12-1

3 The Last Samuri (David Bass) 11-4 Fav

Tiger Roll leads from Chic Name with two to jump...

Beeves still leads with Tiger Roll well set. Cause Of Causes is lagging well behind though. It is going to take a huge charge to win from there.

Bless The Wings gets it all wrong heading into a hurdle and unseats Davy Russell. Beeves is out front with Cantlow for company.

After a false start we are up and running...

Bless The Wings shows the way with Beeves just in behind.

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The next race is the joker in the hand.

The Glenfarclas Chase takes place over a variety of obstacles and three and half miles.

Cause Of Causes is the defending champ and aiming for a fourth straight Festival win.

The Last Samuri is the 2016 Grand National runner-up and has shown himself to the very versatile.

Look out also for Tiger Roll who has winning experience at Cheltenham.

...plenty of happy faces in the grandstands.

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Altior's victory has cost the bookies millions.

The Nicky Henderson-trained favourite attracted a whopping 65% of all bets in the 24 hours before the race.

With Samcro and Pointing Percy also backing up their status as favourites, bookies have had to pay out on a ruinous 18% of all bets today.

Oddschecker spokesperson George Elek, external said: “Altior confirmed his place as the best horse in training with a characteristically commanding display in the Queen Mother Champion Chase.

“He is truly Cheltenham royalty now, with the Mullins duo unable to stop Henderson's star.”

Trainer Nicky Henderson has been speaking to 5 live after Nico de Boinville took victory in the Queen Mother Champions Chase.

"It's good to watch him do that, when he pulled him out he was electric, wasn't he? Behind that he's probably not doing a lot. Good pace. Lots of cover. Jumped great. A very cool ride. Great riding Nico.

"To find those gears in that crowd you have to be pretty good. Great race, but we hated to see Douvan go."