Leopardstown's Christmas Festival rivalled the festive soaps for drama, heartache and thrills with the shocks growing bigger as the week wore on and the sad departure of a champion somehow seemed a fitting finish to the fare on Friday. Leopardstown's Christmas Festival rivalled the festive soaps for drama, heartache and thrills with the shocks growing bigger as the week wore on and the sad departure of a champion somehow seemed a fitting finish to the fare on Friday. Losing the other race in the stewards' room, then Mengli Khan jumping out at the second last," said a disbelieving Mullins. Mark Walsh, riding the six-year-old Yeats mare Shattered Love, claimed his second Grade One of the festival. The festival also got off to a great start for Waterford trainer Henry de Bromhead who enjoyed an opening-day treble.

Source: Irish Independent December 31, 2017 02:30 UTC