There was another winner for Dan Skelton on the final day of the November meeting at Cheltenham on Sunday but a reminder too, at Navan, that his trainers’ title rival, Willie Mullins’s immensely powerful team, is scarcely out of first gear. Final Demand, one of the best novice hurdlers last season, made a flawless debut over fences and suddenly Mullins’s squad for the Grade Ones at the festival back here in March is beginning to take shape.
The style and strength of his 13-length defeat of Wingmen – also a useful novice hurdler last year – was such that he is now just 6-4 for the Brown Advisory Novice Chase at the festival.
