A dual winner at the Festival, Don Poli has Cheltenham hopes once more after popular success at Alnwick point to point
As the old saying goes, winning the Derby makes you rich, winning the Grand National makes you famous. Winning a point to point just makes you happy, but what satisfaction there must be for the trainer who, on Sunday, became the first to get Don Poli to win a race since December 2015.
The wizard in question is Nick Pearce, 36, whose day job is as one of three head lads working at Dan Skelton’s Warwickshire winner factory. When Don Poli arrived at Skelton’s in the summer, Dan sent him a short way down the road to a yard where Pearce, who trained 80-odd pointing winners before joining the team, still works his magic on a veteran or two.
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