Gold Cup runner-up ruled out of tilt at this Sunday’s Fleur De Lys Chase at Windsor
Davy Russell riding Gerri Colombe at Aintree in April 2023: Gordon Elliott’s chaser is one of a trio entered by owner Brian Acheson’s Robcour team for Windsor’s featured Fitzdares Fleur De Lys Chase. Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images
Worth almost €200,000 in prize money, and won a year ago by L’Homme Presse, the Fleur De Lys features on the final leg of the lucrative Berkshire Winter Million Weekend which starts at Windsor on Friday. It returns to Windsor on Sunday after racing at Ascot in between. Elliott’s Fil Dor and Henry De Bromhead’s Journey With Me are among the 11 remaining in Sunday’s Windsor feature.
Tuesday’s domestic action is on the all-weather at Dundalk, where Cousin Shay can make a successful first step up to a mile and a quarter by scoring in the finale.
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