De Bromhead ‘delighted’ with Festival favourite Europe

For a while there yesterday it looked as if Sizing Europe was about to rewind the clock back three full years and deliver another startling success for jockey Andrew Lynch, trainer Henry De Bromhead and its owners Alan and Ann Potts.

With the majority of the two miles completed in the featured Queen Mother Champion Chase, the 12-year old was still there, legs pumping, alongside the best of the young ‘uns and the romantic in all of us dared to dream.

Three years after his triumph in this same race, and four since his first Festival win in the Arkle, the horse De Bromhead had once admitted was “like a child to me” had not won any of his half-dozen Grade Ones in the previous two years.