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Article: Racing: Papillon for Punchestown.(Sport)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2000
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MARTELL Grand National hero Papillon may run again this season in the Heineken Gold Cup at Punchestown, trainer Ted Walsh revealed yesterday.
And Walsh, greeting the gelding on his return to the trainer's Co. Kildare yard, confirmed the nine-year-old will be campaigned next season with the aim of a repeat at Aintree in 2001.
Speaking to a posse of television, radio and press reporters in his yard, Walsh outlined the immediate plans for Papillon.
''He was back here this morning at 9am ...