Vroum Vroum Mag won the Mares’ Hurdle in 2016 and finished a close second behind Apple’s Jade 12 months ago and was once described by Mullins as the versatile “supersub” in his team as she could compete at a high level over hurdles and in chases. Vroum Vroum Mag recorded Mullins’s eighth successive success in the Mares’ Hurdle and then followed up in the Punchestown Champion Hurdle a few weeks later. “I can confirm Vroum Vroum Mag has been retired, she isn’t going to make it [to Cheltenham],” Joe Chambers, the racing manager to Rich Ricci, Vroum Vroum Mag’s owner, said on Wednesday. This year’s first-day favourites will be saddled by the three trainers – Elliott, Mullins and Nicky Henderson – who are expected to dominate the meeting. Mullins is 6-4 favourite to finish the week as with most wins, while Elliott and Henderson are 9-4 and it is 33-1 bar the three.

Source: The Guardian March 07, 2018 19:07 UTC