Victoria Pendleton to team up with Pacha Du Polder at Festival

Victoria Pendleton has been given a great opportunity of fulfilling her dream of riding in the St James’ Place Foxhunter Chase after Pacha Du Polder was made available to her as her potential mount at the Cheltenham Festival.

Pendleton will team up with the nine-year-old, who wears the famous colours of leading racehorse owner Andy Stewart, for the remainder of the point-to-point season with the ultimate aim of competing in the Foxhunter.

Pacha Du Polder was runner-up in the Crabbie’s Fox Hunters’ Chase at Aintree last year when trained by Paul Nicholls and is already qualified for the amateur riders’ Gold Cup at Cheltenham.