Galopin Des Champs, the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner last season, is top‑priced at 13-8 for a repeat success at the Festival in March after a hugely impressive return to winning form in the Grade One Savills Chase at Leopardstown on Thursday.
Fastorslow, who had beaten Galopin Des Champs on his two previous starts, was a late absentee from the race as the ground deteriorated, but Willie Mullins’s seven-year-old was still sent off odds-against at 6-4, with Gerri Colombe, the short-head runner-up in the Brown Advisory Novice Chase at last season’s Festival, also well supported at 7-4.
