“Delta Work showed all heart to defeat a top-class opponent in Galvin”
Whacker, who showed a combination of class and guts to prevail in the Grade One Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase over an extended three miles. It may be run on the old course rather than the new, but the Brown Advisory is a key pointer for the biggest race of them all, the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup. It’s a route that Looks Like Trouble, Denman, and most recently, Lord Windermere have all taken to the biggest prize of them all, and considering the manner of the runner- up Gerri Colombe’s success in a Grade One at Aintree the following month,
everything suggests Patrick Neville has a serious contender on his hands. Meanwhile, Festival Wednesday is also the scene of The Festival’s most unique contest, the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase over three-and-three- quarter miles. With obstacles that you wouldn’t see in a conventional chase, the race provides a unique test, which plenty use as a warm-up for the following month’s Randox Grand National at Aintree. It is a race that became synonymous with the dual Grand National hero Tiger Roll – who won this in 2018, 2019 and 2021 – and since his retirement, another
Gigginstown horse has stepped into that void. Delta Work denied his famous stablemate the ultimate farewell, when defeating him by three quarters of a length in 2022, but if he was the pantomime villain that year, he redeemed himself this time, showing all heart to defeat a top-class opponent in Galvin. Should he return next year, Delta Work will have the chance to emulate Tiger Roll and become just the second three-time winner of this race, setting the scene for not one, but potentially two, hat-trick bids in 2024.
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