Venalmar to go novice chasing on return

VENALMAR, runner up in the Ballymore Properties Novices Hurdle at the 2008 Cheltenham Festival, is back in training having missed all of final season and is to go novice chasing.The seven year old's trainer Mouse Morris said on Monday: "Venalmar had to have a chipremoved from a leg, but he's all rigth now and the plan is to start him off over hedge in October or November."Winner of the Grade 2 Woodlands Park 100 Slaney Novice Hurdle over 2m4f at Naas in January 2008, Venalmar lost out by a neck to Fiveforthree at Cheltenham two months later.He has not run since finishing down the field at the Punchestown festival in April 2008.

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Cheltenham Festival - Memorable Moments

Move Forward To Cheltenham 2009

The Festival is over for 2009, but what a magnificent four (three!) days we had in this year.Everyone will have their own individual highlights, but for us there was a period of just over an hour on Thursday afternoon when we were reminded of exactly why we make the pilgrimage to Cheltenham every year.First up was the tremendous performance of Master Minded in the Queen Mother. His was a quite outstanding display of speed and fluent jumping and, as there is no reason to think that Voy Por Ustedes was below his best, it was as good a Festival performance as there has been for many, many years. It was simply breathtaking.We hope you enjoyed the action as much as us and thank you for reading our Blog over the past few weeks. We will continue to post our thoughts on the Festival here over the next couple of weeks We’ll then be back again at the end of the year to start developing 2009 Festival. It can’t come around quick enough!