Jump racing’s highest rated star, Galopin Des Champs, rescued an otherwise frustrating opening day at the Dublin Racing Festival for champion jockey Paul Townend with more Grade One success in Leopardstown in front of a 20,017 crowd.
Jump racing’s highest rated star, Galopin Des Champs , rescued an otherwise frustrating opening day at the Dublin Racing Festival for champion jockey Paul Townend with more Grade One success in Leopardstown in front of a 20,017 crowd. Fears that a spellbinding Christmas victory at the track might have left its mark on Galopin Des Champs proved unfounded as the Willie Mullins star beat old rival Fastorslow in the Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup .
The 1-3 favourite completed a Willie Mullins clean sweep of Saturday’s four top-flight contests to secure him a Lucky 13th success in the €250,000 feature. It was an important victory for Townend who’d endured an exasperating afternoon up to then. For once, the privilege of having first pick of Mullins’s overwhelming strength in depth looked rather dubious after Townend got them all wron
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