Galopin Des Champs joined the record of Cheltenham Pageant greats when brilliantly defending his Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup crown.
Having answered stamina doubts 12 months in the past, the Willie Mullins-trained Galopin Des Champs was ridden a lot handier this time by Paul Townend, because the final two Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase winners, The Actual Whacker and L’Homme Presse, set the tempo.