Hollywood Racing and Barnane Stud-owned Il Etait Temps impressed in his seasonal reappearance at Clonmel in the Gr 2 Clonmel Oil Chase over 2m 4f 171y, giving away lumps of weight and winning by 18 lengths (Picture: Sky Sports)
Tingle Creek Chase is at 17H00 SA Time
Saturday’s Betfair Tingle Creek Chase could prove a timely opportunity for Il Etait Temps to put his stamp on the two-mile Queen Mother Champion Chase division.
Willie Mullins’s grey is one of six entries left in Sandown’s Grade One feature after the latest acceptance stage for a race over the course and distance at which Il Etait Temps won in spectacular style on the final day of the British season in April.