Fever set for another season opening success

Willie Mullins warns that Champagne Fever may need the race, but the grey is still the choice to land the Grade 2 Clonmel Oil Chase at Clonmel this afternoon.

At level weights one would have had no hesitation siding with the venerable Sizing Europe, but the veteran has to concede his rival 11lbs and that is a big enough ask.

Sizing Europe will be a 13-year-old in a couple of weeks, but there is no indication he is about to go into decline.