Bells ’N’ Banjos hits all right notes for O’Brien

Fergal O’Brien has sights set on the fourmile National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham for Bells ’N’ Banjos after a second successive course success at Leicester.

The seven-year-old outpointed Duelling Banjos by a length-anda-quarter in the HAC Pipeline Supplies Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase.

The pair set the pace throughout and it was Bells ’N’ Banjos (15-2) who found extra on the run-in as the pair pulled 20 lengths clear of Some Are Lucky in third place.

“He’s won twice here now on different ground, but Paddy (Brennan) said he doesn’t want extremes, so he went wide all the way in search of better ground,” said O’Brien.

“I’ll have a word with the owners, but I’d like to go to Cheltenham for the four-miler.

“He jumps well and he stays well.”