Etoile to run twice before Cheltenham

Rising Irish star Accordion Etolie will have no more than two races before a crack at the Smurfit Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

Rising Irish star Accordion Etoile will have no more than two races before a crack at the Smurfit Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

The fast-improving five-year-old ran out the convincing winner of the Greatwood Hurdle at Cheltenham earlier this month – when he had Rooster Booster back in fourth – but will not be seen on the racecourse again until early 2005.