Garde Champetre is one to watch

Garde Champetre is a name for the notebooks after a highly-encouraging performance in the curtain-raiser at Cheltenham today.

Tue, 16 Mar, 2004 - 18:16

Garde Champetre is a name for the notebooks after a highly-encouraging performance in the curtain-raiser at Cheltenham today.

Having just his fifth start for Paul Nicholls, the ex-French gelding was all at sea for most of the way and at the start of the final turn had only two of his 18 rivals behind him.

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