Brave Saga carving out his own story with unlikely success
Willie Mullins has sent the likes of Faugheen and last season's Albert Bartlett winner Penhill to win the Grade 2 Guinness Novice Hurdle in recent years and while this year's winner Fabulous Saga lacks the class of those individuals, he certainly didn't lack courage to add to the champion trainer's tally in the day-four feature.
Having beaten Burren Life under a fine front-running ride by 70 lengths when last seen, the favourite's opponents weren't so keen in letting him build up a similar lead here.
And when Burren Life headed him at the second-last, Fabulous Saga looked as though he might not even finish in the first two, but he stayed on relentlessly from the last under Danny Mullins to wrest back control and score by three and three-quarter lengths from Delta Work, who passed his tired stablemate Burren Life close home.
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