PWC Champion Chase
Grade 2, Gowran Park 16:35
€37,500 guaranteed,
5yo plus,
2m 4f, Class 1   
Saturday 30th September 2023

Trainers Quotes

1 Easy Game 3/1
2 Gentlemansgame 7/4
3 Envoi Allen 13/8F
6 ran Distances: 1½l, 7l, 39
5m 19.60s (slow by 19.60s)

Easy Game continued his astonishing prowess in the PWC Champion Chase with a third victory in the Grade Two feature at Gowran Park.

Willie Mullins’ nine-year-old took the same contest in 2020 and 2022, but was not the favourite as Henry de Bromhead’s reigning Ryanair Chase hero Envoi Allen was making an early return to action.

Easy Game made the running under Paul Townend with Mouse Morris’ Gentlemansgame in his slipstream and Envoi Allen tracking in third.

As the two-and-a-half-mile contest unfolded there was no change in that order and Easy Game claimed a length-and-a-half victory from Gentlemansgame, with Envoi Allen some way back in third.

“He’s been an unbelievable horse for us. That’s my 10th win on him now,” said Townend.

“The ground was a bit of a worry but when I had a walk around on it I was pleasantly surprised with the way it had taken the rain.

“He just keeps on delivering. We had race fitness and were able to dictate it, but he showed in Listowel a couple of runs ago that he can come from behind too.

“I think the opposition kind of presumes he’s going to make the running now as well. He enjoys jumping and it’s working so we’ll keep doing it.”

BetZone

PWC Champion Chase (Grade 2)
€37,500 guaranteed, 5yo plus, 2m 4f, Class 1
6 ran
Going: Heavy

POS. DIST HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY SP
1    Easy Game 9 11-8 W P Mullins Paul Townend 3/1
2 1½ Gentlemansgame 7 11-3 M F Morris Darragh O'Keeffe 7/4
3 7 Envoi Allen 9 11-12 Henry De Bromhead Rachael Blackmore 13/8F
4 39 Hurricane Georgie 6 10-10 Gordon Elliott Jack Kennedy 8/1
5 hd Mister Fogpatches 9 11-3 P A Fahy Danny Mullins 100/1
6 3¼ Good As Hell 8 10-10 Brian Hayes Philip Fenton 40/1

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