his 62nd Cheltenham winner, another record for the Carlow-based trainer, and shouts of “Go on the Rubes!”
“Sure what else would you do?” said Walsh when asked if he liked the love shown by the large Cheltenham crowd. “You’d spend the other 300 days of the year looking around with no one looking at you.”man, just off his 59th Cheltenham winner, admitted that he and Mullins did not have a raft of “odds-on shots” this year but loads of “individual chances” that are “not all going to click”.
He was right. There were more gasps on a dramatic day of racing when Walsh suffered a nightmare fall at the last while leading on Benie Des Dieux in the Mares’ Hurdle.landed her first Cheltenham Festival winner on A Plus Tard in the Novices’ Handicap Chase. The crowd lapped it up as she stood and jabbed the air afterwards.
Elsewhere, at the end of an eventful day of racing, Dublin punters John Mulligan, Dave Chapman and Paul Griffith toasted Espoir D’Air’s 16-1 victory and other wins as they contemplated whether they would return to Cheltenham if Brexit meant fewer Irish horses travelling next year. “If you don’t have that competition between the Irish and the UK horses, then absolutely you would have to think about whether you would come or not,” said Mulligan.Brian Carey from Co Clare, down €70 with “not one winner” on the first day, struggled to figure out why his Irish favourites had failed to “get up that hill” but would not dream of betting on Brexit.
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