'It was joyous to win at Cheltenham - he was on a very good mark and if you're going to blow it you might as well make it worthwhile!'
The Scottish trainer talks to Sam Hendry about another festival winner, maternal feelings and Go North Weekend
If Ultima ever decides to drop its sponsorship of the Cheltenham Festival’s opening handicap, there would be a good case to simply rename it the Lucinda Russell Handicap Chase.
For the third time in four years, the most successful trainer ever to hail from Scotland embarked on the 750-mile-plus round trip from Kinross to the Cotswolds and left with the winner of the stamina-sapping contest built ideally for the sort of strapping chaser with which Russell so excels.
Myretown, off a basement mark of 127, delivered one of the most impressive performances of the entire week and looks to be another in the same mould as One For Arthur, Corach Rambler and Ahoy Senor for a team continually going from strength to strength
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