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Race replays: our experts pick out the races that demand a second look

Relive the key moments of the last seven days

Happy Diva won a terrific BetVictor Gold Cup, which looked to be packed with future winners
Happy Diva won a terrific BetVictor Gold Cup, which looked to be packed with future winnersCredit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)

The first huge meeting of the jumps season was reduced from three days to two at Cheltenham, but thankfully Simon Claisse and his team got the show on the road and we saw some fantastic racing.

Here, in the first of a new weekly series, our experts pick out some of the races worth watching again using our fantastic race replays feature from Cheltenham and beyond.

Race of the week

You would have seen Happy Diva fending off Brelan D'As in the BetVictor Gold Cup and Slate House cruising into contention before falling two out, but there was lots more to unpack in the weekend's feature handicap. Check out the luckless passage Belami Des Pictons endured in the first mile or how sketchily Slate House jumped before his fall. [Keith Melrose]

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