Weekend tips: Concertista can collect in Mares’ Champion

A deeply impressive winner of the mares’ novice at last year’s Cheltenham meeting, she made a winning start to this term, beating Minella Melody

Sat, 01 May, 2021 - 06:30

Tommy Lyons

Concertista was touched off in the Mares’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival but has a superb opportunity to bounce straight back to winning ways in the Grade 1 Coolmore Kew Gardens Irish EBF Mares’ Champion Hurdle.

A deeply impressive winner of the mares’ novice at last year’s Cheltenham meeting, she made a winning start to this term, beating Minella Melody, and followed up against the same mare on her only other outing prior to her Prestbury return.