Road to Riches enters Gold Cup picture

The multi-talented Bryan Cooper gave Road To Riches an extraordinary ride to land the Grade 1 Lexus Chase at Leopardstown yesterday.

Cooper suffered an horrific leg injury when taking a crashing fall off Clarcam in the Fred Winter at the Cheltenham festival in March and it is a measure of the man that he has come back arguably better than ever.

He was simply brilliant on the Noel Meade-trained winner, very much changing his tactics, after the contest had not panned out as might have been expected.