Energumene on course for Cork comeback
Top two-miler set to return in Hilly Way Chase.
Champion Chase winner Energumene is primed for a return to Cork on Sunday as he bids to defend his Bar One Racing Hilly Way Chase title. The brilliant two-miler, owned by Brighton & Hove Albion chairman Tony Bloom, won the EURO 100,000 race on his first start last season and Patrick Mullins, assistant to his father Willie, is hoping it will be a straightforward return. Mullins said: “It was obviously a perfect starting point for him last year and hopefully it can be the same again this year.Energumene streaks clear to win a dramatic Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase 🏆ITs a first win in this race for @WillieMullinsNH 😲#Cheltenham2022 | #ITVRacing pic.twitter.com/pWQ4izMJVM
— ITV Racing (@itvracing) March 16, 2022
“We’ve been very happy with him at home, and it will be great if he could go down and put in a similar performance in Mallow as he did last year.” Energumene is best a priced 6-4 to repeat his Champion Chase success, with Arkle Trophy winner and last Saturday’s Tingle Creek hero Edwardstone a general 3-1 chance. The Grade Two contest has attracted a field of seven, with Henry De Bromhead entering both recent Fortria Chase winner Captain Guinness and stablemate Epson Du Houx. Four-time Grade One winner Master McShee, winner of the Faugheen Novice Chase at Limerick on Boxing Day last year, goes into open company for the first time, having signed off last term with a runner-up effort to Cheltenham Gold Cup favourite Galopin Des Champs at Fairyhouse. His trainer Paddy Corkery insists he may need the run after 238 days off.
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