Favourite Denman takes Royal & SunAlliance

Denman, trained by Paul Nicholls and ridden by Ruby Walsh, won the Royal & SunAlliance Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.

Favourite Denman takes Royal & SunAlliance
Wed, 14 Mar, 2007 - 14:50

Denman erased memories of a short-priced reverse at last year's Festival when running out a thoroughly convincing winner of the Royal & SunAlliance Chase.

Ruby Walsh always had the Paul Nicholls-trained 6-5 favourite to the fore in the Grade One contest and the pair soon got into a beautiful rhythm.

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