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CAROLINE NORRIS
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The Queen Mother’s Hunt for Champions is the only marquee jumping race Willie Mullins has yet to loot and Chacun Pour Soi solidified his position at the top of his ante-post market by purring to victory in the Club Chase. Paddy’s rewards under Paul Townend on Sunday.
Returning a 4-7 shot, he slid into an emphatic six-and-a-half length win over his main market rivals Notebook and Put The Kettle On. He did away with the specter of his shocking € 100,000 Grade 1 loss from the previous year and while Altior had yet to be conquered at Kempton, one could imagine such a polished turn would have left the champion coach happy. Everything was as it should be.
Mullins, of course, was pleased to see his two-mile star go through the motions in such a bloodless manner.
Watch Chacun Pour Soi’s impressive victory at Leopardstown
However, to win, Chacun Pour Soi had to navigate what should have been the first and last hurdles, and Mullins took the opportunity to vent his frustration at the regularity with which obstacles are skipped due to the low sun.
“I was impressed,” he said of the eight-year-old’s performance. “It was full of spring and he just went down to his fences and attacked them. He flew around the last corner and you could see him idling a little bit, and Paul just picked him up and passed the last one. He had a lot in reserve.”
Mullins, who was winning the race for the fourth time, then drifted onto what is such a current and divisive issue. He did not bite the words.
“Safety is paramount,” he said. “However, the horses have been jumping fences for years in the sunlight, so why is it a problem now? I don’t know. Some days the races are ridiculous. It’s like a flat race with a couple of hurdles on It is a dangerous game from day one: it is a risky game every day that they are out there.
CAROLINE NORRIS
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“The trainers have to say everything about their horse that might affect them, everything, and then we go to the chase and they have to jump only half the hurdles. Is it fair for the punters? Is it fair for people to watch the races “Is it fair to horses that are good jumpers? I think it’s getting more ridiculous.”
In March, the sun in Cheltenham tends not to be a problem, although Closutton’s teacher indicated that the equivalent Dublin Racing Festival race in which Chacun Pour Soi beat Min last February would be held again en route to Prestbury Park.
Here, Chacun Pour Soi traveled powerfully on the heels of the leaders before taking the lead in what would normally be the last quarter.
From there, Notebook always seemed to be running for second, which he clung to by a long and three-quarters of his Put The Kettle On stablemate.
So far the towering Chacun Pour Soi has yet to compete in the Cotswolds after having had an eleventh hour retirement in March due to a foot problem.
Patrick McCann
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Willie Mullins with jockey Paul Townend: Closutton’s master indicated that the Dublin Racing Festival would be next for Chacun Pour Soi
Patrick McCann
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