- Legendary Festival owner records four-timer
- Odds-on favourite beaten in Champion Chase
For JP McManus, it was so nearly the perfect day at the Festival. The man who has seen his colours carried to victory here more often than any owner in the game added four more winners to his lifetime total on Wednesday and yet may still have left the track mulling over the one that got away. McManus has now won 64 races at the Festival but after the odds-on defeat of Defi Du Seuil in the feature event, the Queen Mother Champion Chase is still not among them.
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Written by Greg Wood at Cheltenham
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