'He's seriously exciting to be going over fences with - he looks like a chaser, he acts like a chaser and he jumps like a chaser'
If there were no such thing as Willie Mullins born into this world, not only would Gordon Elliott be a multiple champion trainer by now but he would also have added the Champion Hurdle, the Arkle and the Gold Cup to the Stayers' Hurdle, Albert Bartlett and Martin Pipe he actually did win at this year's Cheltenham Festival.
Elliott carded a level-par score of three for the festival, but Irish Point was just touched off by State Man in the Champion Hurdle, Found A Fifty was second to Gaelic Warrior in the Arkle and Gerri Colombe chased home Galopin Des Champs in the big one, where he was done absolutely no favours by the loose Fastorslow. The team played a lot better than the three goals they scored at the big carnival in the Cotswolds.
Oh, and he would have won the Grand National again, too, as Delta Work got closest to I Am Maximus at Aintree.
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