Randox Grand National hero Noble Yeats (3-1) flew home to land the Grade Two Boylesports Many Clouds Chase on his return to Aintree Racecourse.
And now the Emmet Mullins-trained seven-year-old could be lining up in Grade One company with possible cracks at the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day and the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup at the Cheltenham Festival being mooted.
Noble Yeats famously won the Grand National, under amateur Sam Waley-Cohen on his final ride back in April, to become the first seven-year-old since Bogskar in 1940 to land the world's greatest steeplechase. But connections had felt he could be a chaser to reach the very top and sent him back to the scene of his finest hour on something of fact-finding mission. And the rising chase star, under new regular rider Sean Bowen, has given them food for thought over where his main targets should be after this latest victory at Aintree, this time over the Mildmay fences.
