WILLIE Mullins might well have a runner in the Ladbrokes Champion Chase years as Kemboy features among the entries for the season’s opening Grade 1 event at Down Royal on Saturday, November 5th.

While the race’s most successful trainer Paul Nicholls is doubly represented and Gordon Elliott holds the strongest of hands numerically, perhaps it is the 2021 Irish Gold Cup winner which is the most intriguing of the 13 hopefuls.