Dream comes true! Another Power surge helps Chris's Dream take Troytown in style

Any chance we could get Robbie Power to negotiate Brexit for us? He is sorting just about everything else out right now and his first Ladbrokes Troytown Chase victory on Chris's Dream was his ninth winner in nine days.

Twenty-four hours after cajoling Lostintranslation to a brilliant Betfair Chase success at Haydock, Power was again in waiting mode, this time at his local track on Chris's Dream, as he picked off his rivals one by one on the final circuit to score emphatically by nine and a half lengths.

As big as 11-1 with the sponsors on the morning of the race, Pricewise pick Chris's Dream was supported all the way into 9-2 favourite at the off and punters had few anxious moments on the way to a wide-margin win.

"It has been an unbelievable weekend," said the winning jockey afterwards. "Navan is my local track and to win the Troytown is fantastic. I had never won it before, third on Magical Of Light last year was the best I had done, so to finally win it is brilliant."

Power added: "He loves Navan and Henry [de Bromhead] had him spot on for this. He travelled and jumped super and it couldn't have went any better the whole way."

Chris's Dream: en route to an easy victory in the Troytown Handicap Chase at NavanCredit: Caroline Norris

De Bromhead deflected the praise on to Power and owner, Brian Acheson, afterwards but it was some training performance from the Knockeen-based handler to have Chris's Dream in such rude health after a 208-day absence.

"Brian [Acheson, owner] suggested this race and it made a lot of sense. Robbie was brilliant on him and he’s a very good horse," De Bromhead said.

He added: "His form tailed off a bit last season so we’ll have to watch that and it seems he doesn’t want too much racing. We went to Aintree full of confidence and he was well beaten, and then he ran no sort of race at Punchestown either.

"Christmas will probably come too soon so maybe we will look at something like the Thyestes."

Fitzhenry was the only one to put up any sort of resistance to Chris's Dream, but he was brushed aside approaching the final fence and had to settle for a remote second. The similarly JP McManus-owned Portmore Lough was a further seven and a half lengths back in third. Space Cadet fared best of the rest in fourth.

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