Cheltenham Gold Cup 2024: Galopin Des Champs wins once more for Willie Mullins


It was a return to regular enterprise for Mullins at Cheltenham after a clean day on Thursday as he took Friday’s opening two races.

Majborough claimed the Triumph Hurdle for the coach’s seventh victory of the week.

The 6-1 winner, ridden by Mark Walsh for proprietor JP McManus, led house a Mullins 1-2 with Kargese in second.

Absurde, a 12-1 probability who received final 12 months’s Ebor Handicap on the Flat earlier than ending seventh within the Melbourne Cup, claimed the County Hurdle underneath Townend.

That sealed the main coach title on the Pageant for the eleventh time within the final 14 years.

Gordon Elliott, the final man apart from Mullins to prime the standings in 2018, took the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle with 33-1 probability Stellar Story as jockey Sam Ewing secured his first Pageant win.

It denied former soccer supervisor Harry Redknapp one other winner along with his horse The Jukebox Man, educated by Ben Pauling, simply edged out. Redknapp savoured success 24 hours earlier with stablemate Shakem Up’Arry.

Sine Nomine, ridden by John Dawson, took the Hunters’ Chase for coach Fiona Needham.

Needham, clerk of the course at Catterick, had additionally received the race in the identical colors as a jockey 22 years in the past on Final Possibility, owned, educated and bred by her father Robin Tate.

Mullins was denied within the Paddy Energy Mares’ Chase as Dinoblue was edged out by Limerick Lace (3-1), who received for jockey Keith Donoghue and coach Gavin Cromwell in a 1-2 for proprietor JP McManus.

The concluding Martin Pipe Hurdle went to Elliott and rider Danny Gilligan with Higher Days Forward.

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