the proven Champ or the potential in Nationale?
Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott have won the last eight runnings of the Royal Bond between them. Incidentally, the last trainer other than them to get in on the act was Philip Fenton in 2013 with The Tullow Tank, owned by none other than Barry Connell.
Nine years later and Connell is trying to win the race as a trainer with the unbeaten and…