Gordon Elliott’s shadow has crept up on Willie Mullins’s domestic champion trainer hopes this season, but few would have predicted the contrast in fortunes between the two at this year’s Cheltenham Festival – a meeting Mullins has farmed in recent years – with Elliott running away with the race to be…
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1pt win Fox Norton @14/1 NRNB, Ryanair Chase
Unfortunately our ante-post pick for Thursday’s Ryanair Chase, Ar Mad, has been ruled out of the Festival through injury, which means his Sandown conqueror Un De Sceaux has tightened into 5/2 favouritism. There’s a messy market behind him with second-favourite Empire Of Dirt possibly set to replace his injured teammate Don…
1pt win Simonsig @5/1, 1pt win Zubayr @6/1, Auteuil, Saturday
The jumps season may have ended and most of its stars put away until autumn, but Willie Mullins, Nicky Henderson and Paul Nicholls all have runners in France today at Auteuil The Grade 2 La Barka Hurdle went to a British raider last year in Ballnagour, who has another go for David…