IRISH RACING
Karl Hedley sees Envoi Allen power on

With the jumps season well and truly underway in Ireland, there have been some quality performances since my last piece, not least from Envoi Allen, the one Gordon Elliott calls his “horse of a lifetime’. More on Envoi later, first some insights into how connections viewed other runners.
A small but select field lined up for the Clonmel Chase, a Grade Two event run over two-and-a-half miles. Willie Mullins trained the first two in the market, but it was Bachasson who got the better of his more fancied stablemate Cilaos Emery in ...