• Dan Skelton’s horse wins New Year’s Day Handicap Chase
  • ‘This year has been about putting it together into a big day’

Midnight River showed plenty of stamina to give the Skelton brothers, the trainer Dan and the jockey Harry, a winning start to 2023, landing the Paddy Power New Year’s Day Handicap Chase at Cheltenham.

The eight-year-old advertised his credentials when a staying-on third in the valuable Paddy Power Gold Cup at the same venue on his previous run, albeit that was on the old course and on quicker ground.

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