UPDATED 5:24PM, APR 27 2021
An unraced four-year-old trained by Willie Mullins that was heavily backed for the closing bumper (7.35) at Punchestown on Tuesday has been withdrawn on veterinary advice.
The Ballylinch Stud-owned Glowing Account had been shortened to a general 2-1 shot (from 7) when making the cut for the day one finale, but now misses the race.
Glowing Account s stablemate Hara Kiri, who was favourite until this morning s market move, heads the betting again at a general 11-4 and is the mount of Patrick Mullins.
There is little to choose between Envoi Allen and Monkfish in the market for the blockbuster Dooley Insurance Group Champion Novice Chase (6.30) at Punchestown.
UPDATED 9:43AM, APR 29 2021
Just when the patient was beginning to flatline, British jump racing’s ECG monitor flickered back into life thanks to a dominant and determined front-running performance from Clan Des Obeaux in the Ladbrokes Punchestown Gold Cup.
At the end of a chastening campaign that has seen its protagonists humbled at both Cheltenham and Aintree, Paul Nicholls summoned the bulldog spirit for which he is renowned by pitching his dual King George VI Chase hero into the lion s den. Fortune favoured the brave, not least because in Sam Twiston-Davies he had an accomplice willing to embrace such a valiant policy.
UPDATED 2:05PM, APR 28 2021
Envoi Allen will have a CT scan on Thursday morning to determine the extent of an injury to his hind joint that was picked up during the Grade 1 Dooley Insurance Champion Novice Chase at Punchestown on Tuesday.
The Grade 1 event was billed as one of the best novice chases of the modern era with the 164-rated Envoi Allen taking on the 163-rated Cheltenham winner Monkfish, but it failed to work out the way it was expected with Colreevy making all the running and never looking in any danger.
Monkfish was beaten eight lengths into second with Willie Mullins convinced it was not his true running, while Envoi Allen was pulled up before the second-last by Rachael Blackmore.
UPDATED 8:53AM, APR 29 2021
Galopin Des Champs did not enter spring as Willie Mullins most exciting staying novice chase prospect for next season, but he is now coming out of it as that.
Now 8-1 clear favourite with both Ladbrokes and Paddy Power to follow in the footsteps of stablemate Monkfish by winning the 2022 Brown Advisory Novices Chase, Galopin Des Champs produced a performance right out of the top drawer to topple two other festival winners from last month.
It is only 80 days since Galopin Des Champs was sent off at 100-1 at the Dublin Racing Festival. He was only sixth to Appreciate It in the Chanelle Pharma Novice Hurdle, but he has turned inside out in the last two and a half months and backed up his Martin Pipe victory at Cheltenham with an even more emphatic one here.
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