Jango Baie, who finished second in the Cheltenham Gold Cup last month, won the Racing Welfare Bowl Chase by a huge 16 lengths from Protektorat.<\/p>\n
Jockey Nico de Boinville, who was earlier unseated on Lulamba, recovered to put the Nicky Henderson horse in prime position coming into the home straight. <\/p>\n
Paul Townend on Impaire Et Passe was challenging the even-money favourite but fell at the penultimate fence. <\/p>\n
De Boinville said to ITV: “All in all, I’m absolutely delighted with him. He’s in great order and put to bed that stat that they go to the Gold Cup and don’t come here.<\/p>\n
“It’s all down to the trainer and the team at home. Very special. This will mean a lot.”<\/p>\n
In the opening race of the day, the Elliott-trained Mange Tout pipped 9-4 favourite Selma De Vary to win the Juvenile Hurdle. <\/p>\n
The 5-1 shot powered over the final hurdle and managed to hold off the efforts of Paul Townend.<\/p>\n
Winning jockey Kennedy said the decision to skip the Cheltenham Festival in March “helped”.<\/p>\n
It was disappointment for Henderson’s odds-on favourite Lulamba in the Manifesto Novices’ Chase after jockey De Boinville was unseated.<\/p>\n
Darragh O’Keefe on Koktail Divin was able to take advantage and power over the line in first place. <\/p>\n
Trainer Henry de Bromhead told ITV: “I was starting to get worried for a second but he started to pick up again. It was relentless. They were all jumping so well up front.”<\/p>\n
Barton Snow completed the Cheltenham Festival and Aintree double by adding the Foxhunters’ Open Hunters’ Chase to the Cheltenham Foxhunters Chase.<\/p>\n
Jockey Henry Crow guided the favourite to a seven-length victory from Lets Go Champ.<\/p>\n
In the penultimate race, 14-1 shot Ryan’s Rocket came on strong over the final fence to win the Red Rum Handicap Chase for trainer Fergal O’Brien.<\/p>\n
Favourite Sans Bruit won the race in 2024 and 2025 but finished third in his attempt at three in a row. <\/p>\n
Nan’s Choice rounded off the day with victory for Dan Skelton in the Mares’ Standard Open NH Flat Race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jango Baie, who finished second in the Cheltenham Gold Cup last month, won the Racing Welfare Bowl Chase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-521876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}