Gordon Elliott Stable Tour

Form profile

Unbeaten in a point-to-point, two bumpers and a maiden hurdle at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting before just being touched off in the Tattersalls Novice Hurdle at the Dublin Racing Festival.

Trainer says

I haven’t spoken to Michael and Eddie about it yet. My own feeling is that the further he goes, the better he’s going to be. He’s not a fancy workhorse at home and if you look at him in his races, he nearly looks turning in that he is going to be beaten, but he's very gusty, and he keeps picking up. That style might well suit the Supreme, but he has both options.

Form profile

A 159-rated hurdler, she has won eight of her 12 starts over hurdles, including the Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown and the Neville Hotels Hurdle at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting last season. She returned to her best with victory in the Irish Champion Hurdle at the Dublin Racing Festival.

Trainer says

Last year she wasn’t right after Punchestown. We discovered an issue after the race and rectified it. She was beaten after a hurdle in the Champion Hurdle last year and I would put a line through it. We might do something different this year, maybe stable her somewhere different outside Cheltenham or something. It is an open Champion Hurdle, but it’s a good race. The New Lion is very good; Golden Ace keeps going underneath the radar and all eyes will be on Constitution Hill to see whether he goes back over hurdles.

Form profile

The winner of a point-to-point and a bumper, he was set to make an impressive winning hurdling debut in a maiden at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting until stumbling and falling after jumping the final flight. He rectified this with a success in a maiden hurdle at Thurles, albeit again making a mistake at the final flight.

Trainer says

He’s a very fast horse and he works very, very well. He looked like he was going to be very impressive at Leopardstown. Thurles as a track wouldn’t suit him and the ground was nearly unraceable, but I was very keen to get a run into him, and we were kind of running out of time. He’s not a big, robust horse. He’s not the biggest horse in the world, so I didn’t want to be running him three or four weeks Cheltenham. I wanted to get a run into him. I think he’s a very quick horse. I think the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle will suit him. We’re looking forward to him.

Form profile

A 149-rated chaser, he has won the Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting and a cross-country chase at Cheltenham in his last two starts.

Trainer says

I was really impressed with his performance at Cheltenham. He lost his way a bit, but he’s very much back now. He’ll go to the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase at the Cheltenham Festival and then the Grand National at Aintree.

Form profile

A 151-rated chaser, he has won two of his nine starts over fences, including a Grade 2 chase at Down Royal in November.

Trainer says

Firefox ran a great race in the Irish Gold Cup at a massive price. I think he could be a horse that might run into a place in the Gold Cup at the Cheltenham Festival.

Form profile

A 156-rated hurdler, he has won three of his six starts over hurdles, including the Mersey Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree in April.

Trainer says

He’s a classy horse. He has improved so much over the last year. I was very impressed with how he ran at Ascot. I was keen to run him in Navan last weekend, but the ground was just so heavy and I didn’t want to pull the legs out of him because he’s not the biggest horse. We’ll get a racecourse gallop into him and go straight to Cheltenham.

Form profile

A 151-rated chaser, he has won two of his five starts over fences including the Barberstown Castle Handicap Chase at the Dublin Racing Festival.

Trainer says

He will be entered in everything he’s qualified for at Cheltenham Festival, but I imagine he'll be kept for the Willow Warm Gold Cup at the Fairyhouse Easter Festival.

Form profile

A 140-rated hurdler, she has won two of her three starts over fences, including a Grade 2 mares’ novice chase at Cork in December. She finished second in the Scilly Isles Novices’s Chase at Sandown on her latest start.

Trainer says

Jack said the fences at Sandown just felt like they were very big on her. The ground was very soft, and she struggled the whole way on it, but she was gutsy and ran a good race. She’s in the Mares’ Chase at the Cheltenham Festival and I imagine that’s where she’ll go.

Form profile

A 139-rated hurdler, he has won two of his four starts over hurdles including a Grade 2 novice hurdle at Limerick’s Christmas meeting prior to finishing second in the Nathaniel Lacy & Partners Solicitors Novice Hurdle at the Dublin Racing Festival.

Trainer says

He ran well in the Grade 1 novice hurdle at Leopardstown and is another one that could run in the Albert Bartlett. He needs one more run to qualify him for a handicap, and we could potentially look to do that.

Form profile

A winning point-to-pointer, he is unbeaten in bumpers at Fairyhouse and Leopardstown.

Trainer says

I like him. If the ground wasn’t too soft, I think he could run a big race in the Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival. We’re looking forward to running him.

Form profile

A 135-rated hurdler, she has won two of her three since joining Elliott, including a Grade 3 juvenile hurdle at Fairyhouse in November.

Trainer says

She hasn’t done much wrong. She was a bit keen the last day at Leopardstown, but I was very impressed with Narciso Has. We have the Fred Winter and the Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle as her Cheltenham Festival options, and we have Fairyhouse as well. There's no concrete plan with her yet.

Form profile

A 153-rated hurdler, he ran very well without winning in a succession of high-profile handicap hurdles until getting the Galway Hurdle in the stewards’ room after finishing a close second.

Trainer says

He ran a good race in the County Hurdle last year and we’ll enter him in both the County Hurdle and the Coral Cup this year. He’s not that long back with us, so it's just whether or not he's fit enough to go back to Cheltenham this year. I'm not sure if he'll be ready in time.

Form profile

Made a winning start for Elliott in a Listed mares’ bumper at Navan in November and followed up by making a winning hurdling debut in a mares’ maiden at Naas in December. She went on to win a Grade 3 mares’ novice hurdle at Fairyhouse in February.

Trainer says

I was impressed with her at Fairyhouse last time. She has a good attitude, and I loved the way she quickened from the last to the line. She’s one I’m really looking forward to running. She has obviously beaten Bambino Fever, and I know she will come on for the run, but I think our horse will improve again. She’s improving the whole time and she’s a nice mare.

Form profile

Cheltenham at the end of January.

Trainer says

He’s entered in the Martin Pipe, but he's not qualified as of yet. He had a good run in Cheltenham the other day, so we would be keen to run there if we can qualify him.

Form profile

A 150-rated hurdler, he has won all four of his starts in novice chases this season including the Drinmore Novice Chase at Fairyhouse, the Racing Post Novice Chase at Leopardstown and the Goffs Irish Arkle at the Dublin Racing Festival.

Trainer says

I think we’re going to keep everything up in the air at the moment. Obviously, we have the Arkle and the Brown Advisory as his options at the Cheltenham Festival. I don’t think three miles would be a problem at all. It’s just whether it’s the right thing to do at this stage of his career. I’m not sure. I think he’s won two Grade 1s over two miles because of his guts and his heart. He’s been going as fast as he can three or four out in every race, but he just showed how good a horse he is in the closing stages of his races.

Form profile

A 145-rated hurdler, he has won two of his three starts over hurdles, including the Future Champions Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting.

Trainer says

He is going to go for the Turners Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. He obviously was a fortunate winner at Christmas. I think Talk The Talk was probably going to beat him. Jack wasn’t so sure. Look, I thought he was beaten, but our horse did hit the line very well. I think two-and-a-half miles is really sure to suit.

Form profile

A 135-rated hurdler, he has won two of his three starts over hurdles including a wide-margin victory in a rated novice hurdle in Punchestown in January.

Trainer says

I'd imagine he'll go to the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle. He's a good, tough, staying horse.

Form profile

A 153-rated chaser, he won the Albert Bartlett novices’ hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in 2024 and finished second in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase back at that meeting last year. He has run below form in both his starts in Grade 1 chases this season.

Trainer says

Stellar Story will run in the Gold Cup, but only if the ground is on the softer side.

Form profile

A 164-rated hurdler, he has won 14 of his 21 starts over hurdles including seven Grade 1 races featuring the Stayers’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in 2024

Trainer says

He’s in great form and is obviously going for the Stayers’ Hurdle again. I just felt he is getting a bit older, and he was holding his condition a little bit better, so I thought another run on ground that was safe wasn’t a bad idea. He’s in great form now. He doesn’t do anything fancy at home, so you never really know where you are with him, but he’s a warrior and he’s got form around Cheltenham. We’re really looking forward to him.

Form profile

A 134-rated chaser, he finished fourth in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase at the Cheltenham Festival last year.

Trainer says

He'll probably run in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase again. He's not getting any younger, but he ran a great race over the banks in Punchestown last week.

Form profile

A 155-rated hurdler, he finished third in the Stayers’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival last year and has shaped well without winning in five starts over fences this season including when second to Oscars Brother in a Grade 2 novice chase at Navan in February.

Trainer says

The Wallpark could maybe run in the National Hunt Chase, which would be the best race for him I’d say, but to be honest, we’re not even sure he’s going to go to Cheltenham. We’ll see what happens.

Form profile

The winner of a point-to-point and a bumper, he looked set to make a winning hurdling debut in a maiden at Down Royal only to fall at the final flight. He went on to finish second in a Grade 3 novice hurdle at Navan in November.

Trainer says

He actually gave himself a little cut and he missed a bit of time, but there's a good chance he could go straight to the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.

Form profile

A 157-rated chaser, he has won four of his 11 starts over fences, including the Galway Plate and the PWC Champion Chase at Gowran Park this season.

Trainer says

I was thrilled with his last run in Leopardstown. He was only back with us about four weeks before he ran in the Ladbrokes Novice Chase at the Dublin Racing Festival. I think he could be a dark horse in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase. He’s had 11 runs over fences, so he has so much experience for a novice and stays so well. I think he’s crying out for the longer trip.

Form profile

A 154-rated hurdler, she has won nine of her 10 starts over hurdles, including the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

Trainer says

She’s in great form. She goes straight to the Mares’ Hurdle. Look, she’s not fancy at home. She wouldn’t knock you down with her work, but she keeps winning. She’s only been beaten once and that was by Lossiemouth. She gave herself a cut in Leopardstown and it’s almost healed, but it’s just bandaged to keep it clean. She’s probably a little bit like Golden Ace, she keeps winning, but doesn’t get the credit she probably deserves. We don’t know how good she is, but she’s clearly a very good mare. We’re lucky to have her.