Chacun Pour Soi v Allaho, Monkfish v Envoi Allen plus Paul Townend and Rachael Blackmore chasing the Irish title
It is a measure of Ireland’s current near-monopoly on the biggest stars in jump racing that the first meeting between Chacun Pour Soi and Allaho, two of the country’s best five steeplechasers on the official ratings, at the Punchestown Festival on Tuesday is some way from being the most eagerly anticipated race of the five-day meeting.
It is not even the most high-profile head-to-head on the opening day’s card. That will arrive just over an hour later, when Monkfish, a Grade One winner at Cheltenham, takes on Envoi Allen, unbeaten until his fall when odds-on at the same meeting, in the Champion Novice Chase.
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