WILLIE Mullins has six chances of winning a 10th Goffs Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park on Thursday, January 25th.
Entries for the extended three-mile handicap chase were published this week and Mullins is responsible for six of the 26 horses engaged. Gordon Elliott has made 10 entries and Henry de Bromhead has three.
The Elliott-trained Coko Beach won the race in 2021, finished sixth in 2022 and was fourth last year. The nine-year-old grey is entered for the €100,000 race again and remains in top form this season, having won the Troytown Chase at Navan in November and finished second in the Becher Chase at Aintree last month.
Longhouse Poet, winner of the race in 2022, has been entered by trainer Martin Brassil. The 10-year-old was well beaten in the Savills Chase at Tramore on New Year’s Day.
Two former winners of the Kim Muir Handicap Chase at Cheltenham are among the Thyestes entries - Any Second Now and Angels Dawn. Macs Charm is an interesting outsider for trainer Colm Murphy, having finished in the first two on all three of his Gowran Park outings to-date.