Northern Alliance wins Novice Chase

Tony Martin’s Northern Alliance ran out a ready winner of the Ladbrokes.com Better Prices Bigger Wins Novice Chase at Punchestown – but it could have all been so different.

Edward O’Grady’s Shazand was travelling just as well coming to the second-last fence but suffered a crashing fall.

Thankfully Andrew McNamara and the horse appeared to escape unscathed but it enabled Paul Carberry to coast home on the 11-4 chance, beating Sizing Africa by eight lengths.