Difference in total prize-money between Gordon Elliott and Willie Mullins is €286,780, which looks like we will have a new victor of the trainers title in Elliot.
"I didn't think he was going as well as at Cheltenham".
"Robbie gave him a great ride and is riding out of his skin". It was not so much the scale of the chaser's achievement as the manner of it which left the deepest impression, however, as Coneygree, the 2015 Cheltenham Gold Cup victor, and the valiant Djakadam both played huge roles of their own in what many will remember as the race of the season.
"You have to jump and gallop in that race and Robbie wasn't that happy with him".
"The whole way I thought he wouldn't win". Everything was against him but he put his head down and battled.
"He's going on his holidays now".
"There was no hiding place out there", Power admitted afterwards.
Outlander, the Lexus Chase victor probably wants softer ground to be at his best, and even at his best, I think he falls fractionally short of class. Djakadam was well behind Sizing John in the Gold Cup, and I don't see why today will be any different.
Sizing John's name is etched into the history books, but that does not tell the real story. He was a bit slow at the second-last but he got his head down after that. He had a hard race in Cheltenham and, full credit to the horse, he is only a seven-year-old and dug deep when he had to.
"I was all out and he is just a very good horse".
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Melon, sent off the 5/4 favourite under Ruby Walsh, stuck to his task in second to give Mullins a one-two and boost his trainers' championship bid, with Colin Tizzard's Pingshou three-and-a-quarter lengths back in third. She was very good there and we're hoping for more of the same. "It looked like we might be getting up on the line but I have no complaints".
Coneygree finished third and his trainer Mark Bradstock said: "Coneygree is a dude". Let's just hope he is sound tomorrow. At 3/1, he will have his supporters although I do think that Champagne West will be better served back on a right-handed track - that said Sizing John will have the race run to suit and is the best horse in the race. "It was an awesome run".
The Elliott-trained six-year-old took the Grade 1 Daily Mirror Novice Hurdle.
Gordon Elliott moved a step closer to winning the Irish trainers title when Champagne Classic won at Punchestown.
"He keeps trying and he seems to like that better ground".
O'Leary added: "That's not bad from the worst horse I have!"
"Gordon prepped him really well".
Cheltenham Festival hero Penhill is one of four runners for Mullins in the Grade One three-mile novice hurdle. He can still mix it in grade one company, ' De Boinville said.
Elliott's Milsean is the clear top-rated runner in the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel Hurdle but it is a long time - November 2014 at Navan - since he showed winning form.
"Blinkers made a huge difference to C'Est Jersey". There was not much we could do, it was just one of those things. He had lots of excuses, ' Harrington said.
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