Joseph O’Brien’s Fakir Duderez provides a contact of sophistication to proceedings at Cheltenham as he tops the listing of 15 confirmed gamers for December’s Virgin Guess Cup Handicap Chase.
The eight-year-old has been a constant star for O’Brien over time, profitable Grade 1 trophies at each Aintree and Ascot and repeatedly seen competing towards the perfect.
He has now joined the handicap for his seasonal comeback, along with his handler at Proudly owning Hill confirming he’s on observe to characteristic at Prestbury Park on Saturday.
“The plan is for him to run at Cheltenham,” O’Brien stated.
“It will be good to have him again as a starter this season and it looks as if place for him to be again. Hopefully he goes properly within the class.”
Fakir D’oudairies is certainly one of two potential suitors within the race for proprietor JP McManus with Emmet Mullins’ So Scottish one other potential striker from Eire.
Champion coach Paul Nicholls can be set to double with Monmiral becoming a member of third Paddy Energy Gold Cup crew Il Ridoto on Ditcheat’s crew sheet.
“I am trying ahead to Saturday, each are in good kind,” Nicholls stated in his Betfair diary.
“Bryony [Frost] Il Ridotto and Harry will trip [Cobden] He’ll trip Montmeral. We simply schooled them and they’re each doing nice.
“Momeral is a Grade 1 winner who has come again from some bother, and I stay up for managing him.”
Richard Hobson’s Fugitive crew has file at Cheltenham and is making an attempt to enhance on its fourth-place end on the observe final month and is now switching to the brand new observe that fits it higher, whereas Thunder Rock noticed the type of its profitable debut at Carlisle by runner-up Mahler Mission at Newbury and might be represented by coach Ollie Murphy.