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- Updated: January 8, 2017
Harry Fry feels Ballyoptic could give ante-post favourite Unowhatimeanharry most to think about in the Sun Bets Stayers’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.
The Seaborough handler rates the seven-year-old as a live danger should their paths cross in the Grade One on March 16, despite the fact Ballyoptic has failed to beat the JP McManus-owned Unowhatimeanharry in their two meetings this season
Although easily brushed aside by last year’s Albert Bartlett winner on his return in a Grade Two at Newbury in November, the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Ballyoptic was still upsides the eight-year-old in last month’s Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot before falling at the final flight.
Fry said: “(The Willie Mullins-trained) Vroum Vroum Mag is called the super-sub. She …
