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Altior Sets up Treble Challenge Cont THURSDAY, 15 MARCH, 2018 When asked to go on and seal his third consecutive victory at ALTIOR SETS UP the Festival, he made a decisive surge between the final two fences, seeing off a determined challenge from the Willie TREBLE CHALLENGE Mullins-trained Min (Fr), to land over the last in front and increase his advantage with every stride up the hilly home straight. ATo find those gears in that ground off that pace, you have to be pretty good. It was a great race on paper. We've been lucky enough to be down this road many times and it's 90% relief and 10% joy,@ said Henderson, who has won four Champion Chases in the last seven years with three different horses. Following the second success of Henderson=s outstanding champion chaser Sprinter Sacre (Fr) in 2016, Altior=s win was another important marker on the ever-improving CV of his cool-headed rider Nico de Boinville. In inheriting the coveted position of stable jockey at Henderson=s Seven Barrows stable after Barry Geraghty was retained by owner JP McManus, the 28-year-old has barely faltered when given plenty of chances to repay his boss=s faith in him. Cont. p2 Nicky Henderson and Altior | Racing Post photo IN TDN AMERICA TODAY By Emma Berry CO-HEADLINERS AT OBSMAR FINALE A colt from the first crop of Strong Mandate and a filly by Uncle CHELTENHAM, UKCNicky Henderson inched a step closer to Mo each brought $775,000 to share top honours Wednesday at collecting an unprecedented triple crown of Cheltenham OBS March. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. championship races when Patricia Pugh=s Altior (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) continued his unbeaten run over fences with a seven-length triumph in the G1 Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase. With Buveur d=Air (Fr) having already delivered in Tuesday=s G1 Unibet Champion Hurdle, the Festival=s all-time leading trainer also has the co-favourite for tomorrow=s G1 Timico Gold Cup in Might Bite (Ire). While the latter=s talent is peppered with bouts of unpredictability, Altior=s calling card is sheer ability. The discovery of a foot abscess on Monday threw the 8-year-old=s challenge into temporary doubt and even once the Champion Chase was underway and Altior had been sent off as evens-favourite, he appeared not to be travelling with his usual pizzazz as he tucked in behind the changing early leaders which included Special Tiara (GB), Politologue (Fr) and the luckless Douvan (Fr), who fell four fences out. But one thing that has never been in doubt is that Altior is a jumper of rare quality, and one who has already proved that he=s more than equal to the challenges of Prestbury Park. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 15 MARCH, 2018 Altior Sets Up Treble Challenge cont. from p1 Sprinter was such a show-off and a swank, and he won this ANico was great because they were going a good gallop and he race by a distance, although I'm not sure he beat horses as good kept calm,@ Henderson added. ATo watch the horse do thatChe as the runners in today's race.@ was electric. In behind he wasn't doing that much, but getting De Boinville, who will also partner Might Bite in the Gold Cup, lots of cover and getting a very cool ride. For a second he looked was reluctant to compare Sprinter Sacre and Altior, pointing to in trouble and I thought 'This isn't going to happen', but as soon the latter=s killer finishing kick as his real strength. He said, AYou as he saw daylight he knew where he was going.@ can afford to hold on a bit longer with him. But I just love the way he goes straight to the line there. It's quite hard to peg WE’VE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE them back in ground like this but with his turn of foot, he's done it like a hot knife through butter.@ DOWN THIS ROAD MANY TIMES AND AThat was a sensational performance. I was in serious trouble IT’S 90% RELIEF AND 10% JOY. the whole way round. He was hating the ground. This ground would be the worst he has ever had, it is dead and tacky. Nicky Henderson They've gone a true gallop and it was a true test. His jumping kept him in the race and I know that he has those gears at the end of a race.@ With High Chaparral siring the feature race winner, it was a day to look to Epsom for a guide to Cheltenham success. No He continued, AIt's strange that Altior has come around so fewer than three Derby heroes were responsible for winners on soon after Sprinter Sacre. This horse is very, very good, and I the dayCall three of them multiple Festival winnersCwith always said he had very big shoes to fill, but each time he wins Presenting Percy (GB) (Sir Percy {GB}) following up his Pertemps he gets closer to doing that. We will never forget Sprinter, who Final victory 12 months ago with his first top-flight win in the G1 tugged at heartstrings in a way this horse might never do, but if RSA Novices= Chase and Tiger Roll (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}) he wins again he might. displaying admirable versatility with an enjoyable romp around TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 15 MARCH, 2018 the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase. He first won the G1 JCB Reynolds can perhaps look forward to another return visit as Triumph Hurdle over two miles four years ago and then last year Presenting Percy is now as short as 8/1 for next year=s Gold Cup. claimed the four-mile National Hunt Chase. The winner was congratulated in the enclosure by his proud Presenting Percy, ridden to glory by Davy Russell, has been a breeder Johnny Weatherby, who is awaiting another Sir Percy terrific advertisement for the skills of Galway-based Patrick foal from Presenting Percy=s dam Hunca Munca (Ire) (Presenting Kelly. From limited {GB}). ammunition the trainer has AKelly Morgan, who manages the claimed a trophy at the last stud for me, was a bit nervous three Cheltenham Festivals about coming today as she should with the 7-year-old and his foal any day now. That was stablemate Mall Dini (Ire), fantastic,@ he said. who is also owned by Philip A first-day treble augmented by a Reynolds and is set to run in Wednesday double means that Thursday=s Fulke Walwyn Kim Willie Mullins is still out in front at Muir Challenge Cup. this year=s Festival, and his APat Kelly is an absolute dominance was exemplified by him genius,@ said the delighted saddling the first three home in the owner. ADavy Russell had a G1 Weatherbys Champion very, very hard decision to BumperCnot including his favourite make. He could have ridden Presenting Percy | Racing Post photo Blackbow (GB)Cwhich was won by Monalee (Ire) and the two of them were lying up upside each 25/1 shot Relegate (Ire) (Flemensfirth). other coming to the last. I owe my life to those two guys and it's fantastic.@ Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 13 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 15 MARCH, 2018 Cheltenham Day Two cont. But his main rival for the Irish trainers= championship, Gordon Elliott, also played a strong hand on Wednesday, with Tiger Roll=s win coming between an impressive opening victory for fellow Gigginstown House Stud colour-bearer Samcro (Ire) (Germany) in the G1 Ballymore Novices= Hurdle and followed up by Veneer Of Charm (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}) in the G3 Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle. One man=s luck often comes on the back of another=s bad luck and for Mark Walsh, who rode his first Festival winner for Willie Mullins on Berry Bleu (Fr) (Special Kaldoun {Ire} in the G3 Coral Vice President, International Operations Gary King Cup, it was at the expense of Paul Townend, who had been Twitter: @garykingTDN booked for the ride only to be switched to better-fancied [email protected] stablemate Max Dynamite (Fr), who started favourite and + 1.732.320.0975 finished last. The last-minute change of riders came about after Ruby Walsh International Editor took a crashing last-fence fall from Al Boum Photo (Fr) in the RSA Kelsey Riley Novices= Chase. The jockey, who was taken to the Royal Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Gloucester hospital for x-rays, has aggravated a recently healed [email protected] broken leg which was originally sustained in a fall last autumn. European Editor Having been the leading rider at Cheltenham for nine of the last Emma Berry 10 years, he returned to race-riding last week and won two Twitter: @collingsberry races on the opening day of the Festival. [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN The Cheltenham Festival may provide the highlight of British Marketing Manager National Hunt racing season, but a major part of the thrill Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen involved has traditionally been the rivalry between the home [email protected] team and raiders from across the Irish Sea. The influx of French-bred jumpers to both Britain and Ireland, particularly Contributing Editor over the last decade, has meant that the competition is now Alan Carasso fierce between all three nations. Twitter: @EquinealTDN National honour is at stake, and that rivalry filters through to the desks of the TDN offices.
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