Fast forward eight months and Double Powerful must now race off a rating of 121 tomorrow in the opening Howden Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle, where 12 rivals will stand in the way of a seventh successive triumph.
Serial winner Double Powerful seeks improbable seventh-straight success at Ascot Victory at Cheltenham last month continued his recent form.
Explaining his gelding’s rapid improvement, Mulholland told the Racing Post: “He’s been very mentally and physically backwards, probably more mentally, but he’s doing everything you’d hope a horse would do by progressing and he’s going the right way.
The highly progressive Double Powerful goes in search of his own improbable ‘Magnificent 7’ when the serial winner heads to Ascot tomorrow.
The five-year-old, trained by Neil Mulholland, completed a sparkling six-timer with a gritty defeat of 15 rivals at Cheltenham last month in the hands of Dylan Johnston.
