Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TINGLE ALL THE WAY FOR FROST
A proud Nicholls, back BRYONY FROST went after being confined to from the witness box to Ditcheat for 10 days with the winner’s enclosure Covid, said of his protege: with a stirring victory “She’s been with us since aboard 12-1 Greaneteen she was pony racing with in the Tingle Creek [Nicholls’ daughter] Chase at Sandown Park. Megan, and she’s done
Punters sent Irish nothing but improve and challenger Chacun Pour improve.
Soi, ridden by Frost’s “It has been a difficult boyfriend Patrick Mullins, week for her and she has off the 8-13 hotpot for the handled it well. Betfair-sponsored Grade 1 “I don’t think any of us test. would like to be in that
But it was Frost, who on position, but to come back Wednesday gave a tearful here and ride a Grade 1 testimony in her bullying winner here today? case against fellow rider “That says everything Robbie Dunne – the about her and what a hearing concludes at professional she is, so full British Horseracing marks to her.
Authority headquarters Asked if he had “put next week – and boss Paul an arm round” Frost Nicholls’ upwardly mobile during her travails, the seven-year-old champion trainer joked: “I Greaneteen The most blissful think Paddy who came out place you can be Mullins has on top. is on the back of been doing
Returning horses like him that – not me!” from the fiveand-a-half-length While triumph Chacun Pour Soi, 4-1 for from stablemate Hitman, Cheltenham’s Queen Frost received a rapturous Mother Champion Chase three cheers – a fourth was next March at the start of added for good measure trading yesterday, can be from the sellout crowd. backed at three times
Above the tumult rose a those odds, Greaneteen, shout from a female beaten two lengths in racegoer, who hollered: fourth behind Put The “We support you Bryony Kettle On this year, is, from – you’re doing a great job!” 12-1, as short as 5-1.
Gathering composure, “The Champion Chase the 26-year-old beamed: “I will be his target,” added can’t tell you what it Nicholls. means. I’m nearly in tears “He was beat two – to feel the support of lengths last year and I everybody here is huge. know he has improved “The most blissful place more than that.”
» you can be is on the back SNOW LEOPARDESS of horses like him – there’s clung on for a nose margin no better place to be when in the Unibet Becher you’re 100 percent gunning Chase at Aintree and is with him and he’s gunning 25-1 for the Randox Grand with you.” National on April 9.