As a result, he closed to just over €150,000 behind Elliott with two days of the campaign left. Gordon Elliott had been edging ever closer to winning the Irish trainers’ title for the first time as a result but Mullins kept his pursuit of a 13th championship alive when Great Field, the 9-10 favourite, led throughout to win the Grade 1 Ryanair Novice Chase.

Walsh’s defeat on Nichols Canyon meant he had finished second on a horse trained by Willie Mullins in all three of the week’s feature events so far. He was very long for a little horse but he has the heart of a lion and he doesn’t give up on you.” I just felt that because we had hacked early, I had to go forward and luckily Unowhatimeanharry is a very tough little horse. The last thing I wanted was to be in front two out. “Everything, plan A, B and C, went out of the window. It was 18 lengths back to third and neither horse deserved to lose.”įehily admitted he had to rethink after a slow early pace. Nichols Canyon pushed us all the way and they were two top jockeys at their very best and two brilliant horses. “It just wasn’t his day but this win means so much and what a fantastic race it was. “I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch the race at Cheltenham again because I was so disappointed,” Harry Fry, the trainer of Unowhatimeanharry, said. He was eating into Fehily’s lead all the way to the post but Unowhatimeanharry did not falter and held on bravely to secure the third Grade 1 win of his career. He finished four-and-a-quarter lengths behind Nichols Canyon in third place, and a more aggressive ride by Fehily here was enough to bridge that gap but with very little to spare.įehily judged his moment to strike to perfection as he sent Unowhatimeanharry for home on the run to the final flight and a quick jump there ensured Nichols Canyon had more than a length to make up on the short run to the line.

Lovers of all things Albert Square couldn't wait to see him in the flesh.Unowhatimeanharry lined up at Cheltenham last month with an eight-race winning sequence to his name and set off as the 5-6 favourite for one of the festival meeting’s feature events. Popular Cheltenham pub announces plans to reopenĮastEnders actor Paul Bradley, who played Nigel Bates in the long-running BBC soap opera, was one of those who wowed the crowd.Clubbers at a Gloucester bar could enter through a sterilising gate in world first.Hundreds of people would go there to have a late-night drink, a bop on the dance floor or to see live bands and special guests. It was housed in the four-storey building opposite St Gregory’s Church and was a regular haunt for revellers in the 1990s and early 2000s, before closing in 2005. Many people in the town, and from further afield in the county, will remember dancing the night away at the venue in St James Square. It got us thinking about what used to happen when the site was used as a nightclub, first called Gas and later Chemistry. The site of a popular nightclub in Cheltenham that closed 15 years ago could soon be back in use.Īs we reported on Friday, Gibson House is set to become the home of The St James' Club and host pre-booked events such as comedy nights, art exhibitions and corporate cocktail parties.

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