Geraghty wanted for Ambobo ride

FRENCH trainer Arnaud Chaille-Chaille is hoping to book top Irish jockey Barry Geraghty to ride his first-ever runners at the Cheltenham Festival.

Chaille-Chaille is responsible for Ambobo, one of the market leaders for the Royal & SunAlliance Novices’ Hurdle, and Bonbon Rose, who is likely to head for the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices’ Handicap Hurdle.

With the gallops frozen at the trainer’s establishment at La Palmyre in south-west France following temperatures of minus seven overnight, the two horses worked with the remainder of Chaille-Chaille’s string on the beach yesterday morning.