Aldrewood the answer
The Tom Mullins-trained ten-year-old, a dual Cheltenham Festival winner, is well treated by the race conditions and, with a fitness advantage over his two chief rivals, looks poised to break Gordon Elliott’s strangehold on this event, a race he has won for the last three years.
Alderwood won the Vincent O’Brien County hurdle at Cheltenham in 2012 and returned a year later to land the ‘Grand Annual’.
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