She’s entitled to improve for the run and should she do so, Lossiemouth will have to be very good to deny her. A three-time winner at the Cheltenham Festival, her Christmas Hurdle win brought her Grade One tally to nine and her overall record to 13 wins from 16 career starts. And while Brighterdaysahead kept her honest at Christmas, the suspicion is Lossiemouth wasn’t all out to repel her rival. Willie Mullins can also win the Ladbrokes Novice Chase courtesy of Final Demand. A 13-length winner of a Navan beginners’ chase in November, Final Demand then went to Limerick over Christmas to win the Faugheen Novice Chase by eight lengths.
