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Leading owner JP McManus can get into the winning mood as festival looms
Credit: Harry Trump
The Long Mile
4.00 Gowran Park
2pts win
There was a time, perhaps around forty-odd years ago, when JP McManus might have been in need of a winner on the Saturday before Cheltenham to swell the kitty for the journey across the water.
It has been a very different story for a long time, but Cheltenham's most successful owner and Ireland's chief patron may still appreciate the morale-boost if The Long Mile can win the Holden Plant Rentals Shamrock Handicap Chase (4.00) at Gowran Park.
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