Age fails to stop Spot

CROSS-COUNTRY specialist Spot Thedifference once again proved age is no barrier as the 13-year-old landed the Sporting Index Handicap Chase for the second time in three years at Cheltenham yesterday.

As he did when completing a hat-trick in the Sporting Index Chase here last month, JP McManus’s evergreen gelding once again defied top weight under JT McNamara, fending off Plum’tee for a length victory.

Favourite Silver Birch was a further length and a quarter back in third.

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