Brindisi Breeze cruised to a facile victory at Haydock on Saturday as he stepped up his Cheltenham Albert Bartlett bid. (credit: Sleepless in Somerset)
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Brindisi Breeze cruised to a facile victory at Haydock on Saturday as he stepped up his Cheltenham Albert Bartlett bid.
Lucinda Russell's six-year-old led from flag fall and simply burned off the opposition which included three other 9/2 co-favourites.
Until the race actually got underway, it looked close on impossible to find the winner although in running there seemed little doubt that anything behind was going to get close.
Campbell Gillies kept piling it on as Brindisi Breeze strode away to give Cheltenham's big Festival hope a great 12-length victory.
Brindisi Breeze is 10/1 with
bet365 to win the Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle while American Spin is 66/1 and Boston Bob 5/1.
Afterwards Gillies declared himself confident of a great ride at the Festival if indeed he gets the opportunity to ride Russell's high-class animal.
He said: "Brindisi is going very much the right way and that was a seriously impressive performance from him. I'd love the chance to ride him at Cheltenham and I'm sure he will go well down in the west country.
"Obviously I'd very much love the chance of riding him."
Donald McCain's Real Milan was the big disappointment of the race - finishing a badly beaten fourth after staying on the pace until Brindisi breezed off between the last two.
