It Came To Pass renews Foxhunter dream for O'Sullivan
By the time March 2020 comes about, it will be 29 years since Eugene O'Sullivan landed his sole Cheltenham Festival victory, but he feels he might have one to emulate 1991 Foxhunters' winner Lovely Citizen in It Came To Pass.
In the hands of his daughter Maxine, the son of Brian Boru ran out an authoritative winner of the 2m4f Jack Tyner Memorial Hunter Chase, and his trainer will not be long about plunging the half-brother to Gold Cup winner Lord Windermere into more vaunted hunter chase company.
He said: "He's a lovely horse. He was bought in a job lot from Jim Culloty when he retired from training. He'll go forward and I imagine this fellow will go to Punchestown for the Champion Hunters Chase and we'll aim him for Cheltenham and Aintree next year."
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