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Trainer Mick Channon has high hopes for Somersby in the Champion Chase at Punchestown

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Trainer Mick Channon has high hopes for Somersby in the Champion Chase at Punchestown

Somersby is trainer Mick Channon's main competitor in the Grade One Boylesport.com Champion Chase. The two-mile race is one of three on the opening day of the Punchestown Festival.

Somersby spearheads trainer Mick Channon's attempts to win a first grade one race over fences in the Grade One Boylesport.com Champion Chase at Punchestown. Somersby has second places in both the Queen Mother Champion and the Tingle Creek Chase. AP McCoy rides Somers by and partners Channon's Sgt Reckless in Herald Champion Novices' Hurdle. Willie Mullins' Neptune Investment Novice's Huddle winner Faugheen is odds-on favourite.

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