Talking Horses: Plan Of Attack can add to success of Henry de Bromhead and Rachael Blackmore

The pair are back for more and, given recent events, it’s no surprise that bookies are running scared of Plan Of Attack in the bet365 Gold Cup Handicap Chase.

Rachael Blackmore pictured with Somptueux after their win at Fairyhouse. Blackmore can keep her run of success going at Sandown on Saturday. Picture: INPHO/Caroline Norris

The British National Hunt season draws to a close at Sandown this afternoon and, after a spring in which they won just about every big prize available, Henry de Bromhead and Rachael Blackmore can hog the headlines one last time.

While trainer and jockey will have had high hopes going into this year’s Cheltenham Festival, neither could have dreamed that the week would unfold in such spectacular fashion. De Bromhead became the first trainer in history to win the Champion Hurdle, the Champion Chase, and the Gold Cup in the same Cheltenham Festival while Blackmore ended the week as the meeting’s leading jockey having won no less than six weeks.