- 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.
