Shattered Love comes right back to her best in mares' chase procession

A dual Grade 1-winning novice chaser, including the 2018 JLT at the Cheltenham Festival, Shattered Love has since become a bit of a forgotten mare. However, she returned herself to close to centre stage here with a runaway success in the Listed T.A. Morris Memorial Mares Chase for the second consecutive season.

True, she only had three rivals to take care of this time, but one of those was Kerry National winner Cabaret Queen, who tried to make all under Paul Townend, but once the winner eased past her in the straight, the race was over and her ten-length margin of victory was an appropriate expression of her authority.

Shattered Love's rider Mark Walsh said: "She has won two Grade 1s as a novice, but she seems to be better now in that grade against her own sex, she just finds it easier. She did it well, she jumped brilliantly apart from the last, she just got herself a bit mixed up, but she did it good."