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\nSalvator Mundi has beaten Romeo Coolio at Aintree<\/p>\n
Gordon Elliott expects to have a clearer idea of what path Romeo Coolio will take for the rest of the season after he drops back in trip for the Racing Post Novice Chase at Leopardstown.<\/p>\n
The six-year-old proved effective over the two-mile distance over hurdles last season, striking Grade One gold at Leopardstown’s Dublin Racing Festival before being placed in the Supreme Novices\u2019 Hurdle at Cheltenham and at Aintree.<\/p>\n
Each of his two starts over fences to date have come at two and a half miles, with an impressive chasing debut at Down Royal followed by a brilliant victory in the Drinmore Novice Chase, and he will be a short price to complete the hat-trick in the feature event on day one of the Christmas Festival on the outskirts of Dublin.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re coming back in trip, but I don\u2019t think it will bother him,” said Elliott.<\/p>\n
“He\u2019s an exciting horse, we always thought he was going to be a chaser when we bought him, that\u2019s what he was bought to be. The way he jumped hurdles he always jumped them like he wanted a fence.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s going to be stiffer competition coming back to two miles and I suppose we\u2019ll find out where we are going for the rest of the season by running him over two miles, because if it\u2019s not going to work then we know we can go to Plan B.<\/p>\n
“We can go to Cheltenham over three miles or go to Fairyhouse over two and a half and you\u2019ve Aintree and Punchestown as well. We\u2019re going to learn an awful lot about him at Leopardstown and I\u2019m really looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n
The Willie Mullins-trained Salvator Mundi was seven lengths too good for Romeo Coolio at Aintree in the spring and takes him on again having suffered a shock defeat on his chasing bow at Thurles.<\/p>\n
\nSalvator Mundi has beaten Romeo Coolio at Aintree<\/p>\n
The champion trainer also saddles the vastly more experienced Westport Cove, who has won three times from nine chase starts, while July Flower won her fencing debut at Limerick before landing an Arkle Trial at Cheltenham last month for Henry de Bromhead.<\/p>\n
“She was electric in Limerick and we were delighted with her. I wasn\u2019t sure if I was doing the right thing going over fences, but her owner agreed,” said De Bromhead.<\/p>\n
“I thought she was brilliant at Cheltenham as well, she jumped really well and for not an overly big mare she\u2019s got loads of scope and seems to love it.<\/p>\n
“We were sort of going two and a half to three miles over hurdles with her last year and now we\u2019ve gone two and a half back to two.<\/p>\n
“She stays well and she jumps great, so we\u2019re looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n
Watch the Leopardstown Christmas Festival at 1pm each day from 26-29 December on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gordon Elliott expects to have a clearer idea of what path Romeo Coolio will take for the rest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-209236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}