- whose yard are under a cloud after five of his six runners were pulled up yesterday - has withdrawn his chief rival Jonbon. However he still has to beat six rivals including former Arkle Chase winner Edwardstone.at this year’s Festival with that course waterlogged. That means a change in schedule with all races now starting fifteen minutes later than the earlier published times.
We then end the day with two tricky puzzles. The Grand Annual Chase features sixteen runners over two miles, with Libberty Hunter heading the market. The finale is the Champion Bumper where Willie Mullins trains the favourite Jasmin Du Voux.Worth reminding that - with outsider The Grey Man withdrawn earlier - there are only seven runners in this race. Each ways fans will only get two places, not three, here. looks rock-solid for Alan King in the Queen Mother Champion Chase.
Kenny Alexander has won here four times with Honeysuckle and on another occasion with Telmesomethinggirl who wa ssecond again here yesterday. His blue and white colours will be worn again by fancied can justify cramped odds for Willie Mullins in the Gallagher Novices' Hurdle. Expectations were high for the six-year-old over timber after some impressive efforts in bumpers. The gelding didn’t please everyone when beaten by Firefox on debut over two miles at Fairyhouse.
However, not all of Henderson's runners are affected. As we saw yesterday, his one runner who did complete was Luccia who managed a third in the Champion Hurdle at 33/1. He still runs the well-fancied Doddiethegreat today in the Coral Cup and well-fancied runners Sir Gino and Shanagh Bob are still entered for Friday.
However, after looking at the track there will be no race over the banks this year. That means no third win in the race for Delta Work, and no Minella Indo, Galvin or Coko Beach either.We'll be bringing you all the latest news - there's plenty - as well as all the non-runners, going and racetrack gossip all day.And it was a memorable one for Willie Mullins, who claimed a hat trick of triumphs, including glory in the Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy.....
Celtic will be force to be reckoned with once 3 key stars return as Rangers warned 'big difference' is incomingFormer Celtic midfielder Billy Stark believes his old side will go onto retain their Premiership crown.The Ibrox boss is staring at a mammoth run of fixtures but with so little time left, the race is on.