Cheltenham Day One 🐎
The Cheltenham festival starts with the perfect opportunity for Annie Power’s Mystical Power to seize his first Grade one win. This likeable gelding began his racing career with a win in a National Hunt Flat race at Ballinrobe before subsequently winning on hurdling debut, comfortably by 7 lengths at Galway. He then went to the Grade 2 Skybet Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle at Punchestown at which he won the race in a similar style to his previous start, by 7 lengths. Both hurdle wins have been on soft ground and although lacking experience in comparison to his contenders, I’d expect him to be a Cheltenham natural in the same way his dam was. Mark Walsh takes the ride for the extremely in form Willie Mullins and Mystical Power wears a first time hood. Kim Bailey trained Chianti Classico is the one for me in the Ultima Handicap Chase. Starting off his racing career in a point to point, he won the race when beating his rival in the highly respectable Stumptown, by 2 1/2 length...