Counihan hitching a ride to Cheltenham

Conor Counihan is Cheltenham-bound with a Terence O’Brien-trained horse he part owns.

The Cork boss is one of eight people in a Cork/Waterford Beir Bua syndicate involved in nine-year-old Farrells Fancy, which won the €80,000 two-and-a-half-mile Grade A Leopardstown Handicap Chase on Saturday.

According to Carrigtwohill-based O’Brien, the gelding is expected to run in the novice handicap chase at Cheltenham on Monday, March 12 and is priced at 16/1.