Bumper entry for Cheltenham race

Ante-post favourite Missed That heads a record entry of 65 horses for the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at Cheltenham.

The Willie Mullins-trained six-year-old has won two of his three starts to date and is the current 9-2 market leader with Coral.

Missed That heads a list of 15 Irish challengers with other possible raiders including Vintage Gold, trained by Vincent O’Brien’s son Charles, Firth Of Forth and Eye On The Ball.

Heading the home challenge is Refinement, runner-up last year in the race last year and one of three possibles for Jonjo O’Neill along with Black Jack Ketchum and Inaro.

Victor Dartnall’s exciting Karanja, an impressive winner of all his three starts is also entered in the extended two-mile race as is Len Lungo’s Rasharrow, a decisive winner of his only start to date.

Other leading fancies include Oscar Park, Yaboya and The Mick Weston while England cricketer Andrew Flintoff could be represented by his namesake, Flintoff, who is owned in partnership with Paul Beck.