Following maintaining his unbeaten record over fences with a relatively hard-fought victory from the Cheestrings Novice Chase at 28, wicklow Brave is set to go with this journeys.
Willie Mullins’ 10-year-old is already a Group One winner in the Flat in the St Leger and a Grade One scorer over challenges in the Punchestown Champion Hurdle.
With Rachael Blackmore on the Jan Maat of Henry de Bromhead the veteran for a long way the two-mile-one-furlong affair really involved two.
Blackmore looked the more confident of the two jockeys since Paul Townend started to row out approaching the second-last, and also the 1-2 favourite met wrong.
He was in it wearing Jan Maat to triumph by three-quarters of a span and finally approaching the final fence assembly with it onto a long stride.
Mullins explained:”Paul said he landed in the center of the very first fence and it mad him to get a circuit.
“He then got jumped well again, however exactly the identical fence on the next circuit next time around he made a mistake whatsoever, but his bit of course ultimately won it for him.
“That is his last race that side of the Atlantic for a while as we proceed to Far Hills for the Grand National Hurdle Stakes in October next. Otherwise I’d have gone on October 4 on to Tipperary, however, it is too near the American race.
“That is our strategy the race is two miles and five furlongs and then he’ll come back on home ground for its Drinmore (Chase, Grade One in November).”
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