Europe can make winning comeback

THE big attraction at Gowran Park this afternoon (where there is a 7.30am inspection due to persistent rain yesterday) is Sizing Europe, who makes his seasonal debut in the Grade 2 PricewaterhouseCoopers Champion Chase.

This is where the long road to Cheltenham begins, with connections eyeing a hat-trick of successes at the great festival for the nine-year-old, who is the reigning two-mile champion chaser, having won the Arkle at Prestbury Park the previous year.

Sizing Europe rounded off last season at Punchestown in early May, when losing little in finishing three parts of a length second to Big Zeb.