Nicholls hunts O'Brien landmark

Paul Nicholls closed to within £100,000 (€123,598) of Aidan O’Brien’s prize-money mark for the last Flat season by saddling a treble at Cheltenham.

Having already passed the £3m (€3.7m) mark in this phenomenal campaign, the champion trainer has a week to pass the Irishman’s haul of £3,484,026 (€4.3m) as Le Duc, Earth Planet and Oberon Moon all scored.