Can dual Gold Cup hero Galopin Des Champs reassert back at Leopardstown in top-class Savills Chase?
A nine-runner line-up for the Savills Chase underlines the current healthy state of the Irish staying-chase division.
There is strength in depth to a cast headed by last year's winner and dual Gold Cup winner Galopin Des Champs, two other 2024 Cheltenham Festival winners in Fact To File and Inothewayurthinkin, and Grand National hero I Am Maximus.
The supporting cast comprises 2022 winner Conflated, course-and-distance Grade 1 novice scorer Grangeclare West, 2023 Charlie Hall winner Gentlemansgame, bet365 Gold Cup winner Minella Cocooner and Leopardstown Handicap Chase winner Heart Wood.
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