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With a circuit of Cheltenham still to run here on Friday Willie Mullins’s hopes of filling the infuriating, Gold Cup-shaped hole in his record-breaking career at the Festival were hanging by a thread. Three of his four runners in this season’s race, the latest of more than two dozen Mullins had sent to the start over the years, were already out of the running. Kemboy, the best of them according to the betting, got no further than the first.
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Written by Greg Wood at Cheltenham
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/15/al-boum-photo-wins-willie-mullins-first-gold-cup-cheltenham-festival-horse-racing under the title “Al Boum Photo wins Willie Mullins his first Cheltenham Gold Cup”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
