Racing: Germans eye triumph with Eluna

Irish horses have always been feared and France has had success in recent years but what price a German winner at next month’s Cheltenham Festival?

A good deal shorter than it was, as Eluna stamped herself a serious contender for the JCB Triumph Hurdle by following up last month’s success on her British debut at Warwick by comfortably defying a 7lb penalty in the Ryton Juvenile Novices’ Hurdle on the same course.