Flyer set to wing in one more time

MOSCOW FLYER, unless he’s gone completely over the top or falls, faces a simple task in the Kerrygold Champion Chase at the opening stage of the Punchestown Festival this afternoon.

He is the highest rated chaser in these islands, on a whopping 180 and, on all known evidence, will strip here as good as ever. He produced a tremendous performance at Cheltenham to beat Well Chief by two lengths in the two mile Champion Chase and that form received a big boost when Well Chief bolted in at Sandown on Saturday.

Moscow Flyer then went to Aintree, where he trounced Le Roi Miguel by 16 lengths in another Grade One.