No stopping veteran Spot Thedifference

HE may be rising 14 years old, but Spot Thedifference shows no signs of slowing and landed his fifth success over the cross-country course in the Sporting Index Chase on the first day of Cheltenham’s Open meeting.

Owned by JP McManus and trained by Enda Bolger, the veteran rarely runs a bad race over the banks course and despite taking the race in 2004 and 2005, he was allowed to go off at 5-1.

The mount of JT McNamara cruised through the race with more fluency than normal and produced his usual charge towards the line to beat Star Performance by a length.

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