Hunt Ball rolls on to festival glory

The Hunt Ball fairytale story continued as he secured his seventh victory of the season in the Pulteney Land Investments Novices’ Handicap Chase at Cheltenham.

Trained by Keiran Burke, the seven-year-old won off a mark of 69 on his first start of the campaign at Folkestone and was running in this fiercely competitive contest off 142 and with 12 stone on his back.