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Coneygree has Hennessy entry
- Updated: October 26, 2016
Coneygree is the star name among 58 entries for the £200,000 Grade Three Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday, November 26.
Staged over three and a quarter miles, the Hennessy Gold Cup is the richest handicap chase run in Britain this season before the Grand National and is supported for the 60th time by Hennessy, making it the longest commercial sponsorship in racing.
Coneygree (Mark Bradstock), winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2015, was a leading contender for the Hennessy Gold Cup last year until being ruled out the week before with an injury.
The exciting nine-year-old won twice over fences at Newbury during his Gold Cup season, including a fine display in the Denman Chase.
Willie Mullins is likely to be represented by improving chaser Avant Tout. Mullins was first past the post with Be My Royal in the 2002 Hennessy Gold Cup, only for the horse to be disqualified in controversial circumstances after testing positive for a banned substance.
Racing in the colours of the Supreme Horse Racing Club, Avant Tout won three of his five starts over fences last season
The six-year-old had brushed aside subsequent Galway Plate victor Lord Scoundrel in a three-mile Grade Two novices’ chase at Limerick in April and then put up a fine weight carrying performance in a hotly-contested novices’ handicap chase at the Punchestown Festival later the same month.
Steve Massey, racing manager for the Supreme Horse Racing Club, revealed: “Avant Tout is in …
