“I was terrified about the ground, he had a tendon injury before we bought him, but he loves it. “He seems to love it here, it’s not often you can win a race like this twice in a row,” Williams told Racing TV afterwards. All pics: Steven Cargill Funambule Sivola wins the Betfair Exchange Game Spirit Chase Funambule Sivola (red) beats Elixir De Nutz (yellow) and Greaneteen (right) in the Betfair Exchange Game Spirit Chase for Venetia Williams. Returning to a track he appears to favour, the son of Noroit made all the running under Charlie Deutsch, winning virtually unchallenged and finishing three-and-a-half lengths clear of Elixir De Nutz and a further three-quarters-of-a-length ahead of the odds-on pre-race favourite, multiple Grade One winner Greaneteen. The Venetia Williams-trained eight-year-old was second at last year’s Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham, a month after his first Newbury triumph, but has since endured a torrid time, disappointing at Sandown and Kempton before finishing fifth from six in the Albert Bartlett Clarence House Chase back at Cheltenham last month. It was a Super Saturday indeed for Funambule Sivola as he won the feature Grade Two Betfair Exchange Game Spirit Chase for the second year in a row at Newbury Racecourse.
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