Cheltenham racing tips: Ga Law and Unanswered in…

Cheltenham racing tips: Ga Law and Unanswered in Newsboy's ITV picks for day two

GA LAW gets the verdict for the Paddy Power Gold Cup (2.20) at Cheltenham.

Jamie Snowden trained the son of Sinndar to three wins in novice chases two winters ago, but GA Law missed the whole of last season through injury.

Making his return to action after 603 days on the sidelines, the six-year-old went off an 11-1 chance for the eight-runner Old Roan Chase at Aintree 20 days ago.

Johnny Burke’s mount ran a stormer, looking up against it after a mistake at the fifth fence from home but then staying on with purpose to take third place, beaten a length and a half, behind Riders On the Storm.

The handicapper, who had eased GA Law 8lb from a peak rating of 150, has taken a chance by leaving my selection on his new mark of 142.

GA Law still has more to offer on his seventh outing over fences and, with that run under his belt, can give his under-rated trainer the biggest payday of his career.

SHEARER can join his human namesake as a hat-trick hero with a victory in the Paddy Power Games Handicap Hurdle (2.55) at Cheltenham this afternoon.

Having got off the mark at his fourth start over timber – he captured a two-and-a-half-mile handicap hurdle at Newbury last March – Paul Nicholls’ son of Flemensfirth trailed in fifth of six at Ayr in April when trying three miles for the first time.

But the six-year-old has shown his true colours at the trip with two wins from as many attempts, beginning with a seven-and-a-half-length supremacy from three rivals in a novice hurdle at Worcester in the first week of October.

Shearer (right) is one of Newsboy's tips on day two of the November Meeting (Getty)

Shearer followed up over today’s course and distance in a similar event 16 days later, beating Twig – the runner-up went one better in emphatic fashion at Kempton Park on Monday – by a length and a half.

My selection’s improvement this winter has persuaded the 13-time champion to keep Shearer over hurdles rather than tackle fences, and Adrian Heskin’s mount hasn’t finished yet as he goes back in handicaps off a British Horseracing Authority mark of 139.

Tony Martin’s UNANSWERED rates a worthy market leader for the Paddy Power Feel Like A Favourite Intermediate Handicap Hurdle (3.30).

The Irish raider is 22lb higher in the weights than when beating 18 opponents for a handicap hurdle at Punchestown in May.

But Unanswered did win by eight and a half lengths that day – and has progressed on the Flat in the interim.