Cheltenham Day 4, Darren Norris tips: Joy to follow agony for A Plus Tard
File photo dated 27-12-2019 of A Plus Tard, who can defy the statistics and provide Henry de Bromhead with back-to-back wins in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup. Issue date: Thursday March 17, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story RACING Tips Friday. Photo credit should read PA Wire/PA Wire.
Thwarted by stablemate Minella Indo a year ago, A Plus Tard can go one better in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup today.
The blue riband was the one that got away for Rachael Blackmore at the 2021 Festival but the memory of that agonising defeat can be replaced by unbridled joy today with the Tipperary jockey poised to shatter yet another glass ceiling by becoming the first female to ride the winner of a Gold Cup.
