HENRY DE BROMHEAD


winner on the run to the second last flight, he traded at 4/9 in-running and, given what we know now, if he hadn’t suffered that back injury then, he probably would have won. In the end, he toiled up the hill, 14th of the 14 finishers, Champion Hurdle dreams in tatters. Unperturbed, de Bromhead brought Sizing


Europe back to Cheltenham two years later, a novice chaser with a chance in the Arkle. He had won all four of his novice chases earlier that season, including the Grade 1 Bord na Mona Novices’ Chase at Leopardstown’s Christmas Festival.


He travelled with his customary verve, jumped with his customary accuracy, and stayed on well up the hill to get home by three parts of a length from Somersby. “That was special all right, your first Cheltenham


Festival winner,” recalls de Bromhead now. “It’s so hard to win there. “But every winner is important – it doesn’t matter


where it is. Every horse has its target. To get a horse to fulfil his or her potential. To get a horse to win a particular race. We get a kick out of every winner.” Sizing Europe went back to Cheltenham in 2011


Bob Olinger and Rachael Blackmore win the Lawlor’s Of Naas Novice Hurdle


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