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Annie Power (Ruby Walsh)

Annie Power was supplemented for the Champion Hurdle

  PICTURE: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Mark Scully 7:00PM 14 MAR 2016 

ANNIE POWER returns to Cheltenham on Tuesday hoping to banish the memory of last year’s dramatic last flight fall and finally land a first festival victory in the Stan James Champion Hurdle.

The mare’s fall when clear in the 2015 OLBG Mares’ Hurdle was one of the most dramatic moments in Cheltenham Festival history and saved bookmakers from an enormous payout, estimated to be £80 million, after punters  latched on to a Willie Mullins short-priced four-timer.

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That race came 12 months after Annie Power found only More Of That too good in a thrilling finish to the World Hurdle and her jockey on Tuesday, Ruby Walsh, is hopeful she can finally claim a festival win having suffered the only two defeats of her career at the meeting.

She will line up in the Champion Hurdle having been supplemented for the race by owner Rich Ricci after Faugheen was ruled out of a defence of his crown by injury.

“She seems to be in very good form and I’m hoping it’ll be third-time lucky for her at the festival,” Walsh said.

‘Weight allowance will help’

Walsh, who like Mullins is chasing a fourth win in the Champion Hurdle, does not rank Annie Power in the same league as superstars Hurricane Fly and Faugheen, who landed the race in previous years.

However, he believes Annie Power has the class to win Tuesday’s race and said her mares’ allowance of 7lb could prove decisive.

“We’ve never said Annie Power was a Faugheen or a Hurricane Fly, but she’s a very good mare, as her record shows, and she gets a very handy weight allowance,” he said.

The festival’s all-time winningmost jockey rates stablemate Nichols Canyon and the Henry de Bromhead-trained Identity Thief as the chief rivals to his charge, adding: “There’s not much between Annie Power and Nichols Canyon, and Identity Thief’s form ties-in closely with theirs.

“For that reason I think the winner will come from one of those three.”

Ground expected to improve again

On Monday clerk of the course Simon Claisse upgraded Cheltenham’s going description to good to soft, soft in places and expects to add more good at some stage on Tuesday.

“The soft places are in the chute, which concerns races over 2m4f and 4m,” he said. “I anticipate there may be good in the going description at some point tomorrow if this weather continues. The forecast predicts more dry weather.

“I am very pleased with the condition of all three courses – the Old (used for the first two days), the New course (last two days) and the Cross Country (used on Wednesday).”

 

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