• Meade suggests Leopardstown Christmas meeting next target
• Mullins may steer the impressive Vroum Vroum Mag to CarlisleRoad To Riches,who improved throughout the 2014-15 jumping season to join the top rank of staying chasers, made a solid start to his latest campaign with victory in the Grade Two Clonmel Oil Chase at Clonmel on Thursday. Noel Meade’s eight-year-dilapidated, or who finished third behind Coneygree in the Gold Cup at Cheltenham in March,beat luminous New Dawn by six lengths and is priced at between 16-1 and 20-1 for the 2016 Gold Cup.
Road To Riches was one of three horses in a field of five carrying the purple and white colours of Michael O’Leary’s Gigginstown Stud operation, but started at odds-on with Bryan Cooper, and O’Leary’s principal jockey,in the saddle.
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Source: theguardian.com