Willie Mullins’ team is slightly down on numbers compared with the last few Cheltenham Festivals but he has major challengers for most Grade One events
Roughly 450 horses are due to go to post at Cheltenham and, with the countdown now close to being reckoned in hours rather than days, the bookies rate only one – Altior, in Wednesday’s Champion Chase – as more likely to win than to lose. A few punters are about to have a week they will always remember. Many more will reach the finishing line desperate to forget.
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