Gale Mahler is out to storm Cheltenham and chalk up a Magnificent Seven for Dundee United director Jimmy Fyffe. Doors swing back open at the home of jump racing on Friday for day one of their hotly-anticipated 2024/25 campaign.
Feature contest of the afternoon is the Grade 2 Sky Bet Sharp Novices Hurdle with Tannadice chief Fyffe owning the event’s hottest property in Gale Mahler.
Adrian Keatley’s mare, who is top-price 25-1 for the Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March, goes in search of a seventh straight win when blowing into Prestbury Park.
The five-year-old has run up a sensational sequence with her Uttoxeter win over Flying Fortune being emphatically franked when Peter Bowen's charge triumphed in the Persian War two weeks ago at Chepstow.