A SEASON TO S A V O U R
Cromwell hoping fine season continues at the Cheltenham Festival
W ith strings to make most envious, it is going to take an almighty effort to stop Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott dominating this year’s Cheltenham Festival, but fellow Irish trainer Gavin Cromwell hopes he can get in on the act after a season to savour at the Home of Jump Racing. Since the tapes went up for the opening race at the Showcase Meeting in October, only Nicky Henderson has matched the County Meath handler’s total of seven winners at the iconic track ahead of what promises to be four pulsating days of racing at the Cheltenham Festival. Plenty of attention will be given to the battalions representing the powerhouse yards of
Mullins and Elliott making the journey across the Irish Sea to compete at Jump racing’s equivalent of the Olympics with their abundance of talent. And while Cromwell acknowledges that racing at the Cheltenham Festival will represent a very different challenge for his team compared to previous meetings at the track this season, he is optimistic he still has an ace or two up his sleeve. Cromwell, reflecting on his season so far at Cheltenham, said: “We saw a couple of novice chase races there in October that we thought were good opportunities and it really just grew on the back of that to be honest, and we just kept on going back.
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