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Article: Chelsea Harbour emerges from gloom as dark horse for Aintree

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February 4, 2008
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Events at Punchestown yesterday, coupled with the unveiling of the weights for the Grand National tomorrow, were a reminder that there is life after Cheltenham. And there may well have been two stepping stones towards the 800,000 Aintree showpiece at the Co Kildare track, the eponymously traditional one over three and a half miles and another over two miles.

The weather in Ireland yesterday was truly unpleasant; incessant rain during the morning had turned to snow for the running of the opening novices' hurdle and the cross-country banks course was enlivened by extra hazards in the form of areas of standing water. The jockeys' colours owed more to Pollock than Mondrian, but there was no ...

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