Festival hero Jagwar to return in Paddy Power Gold Cup

Jagwar will return to the scene of his finest hour as he prepares to make his seasonal reappearance at Cheltenham in the Paddy Power Gold Cup.

The six-year-old was last seen claiming the TrustATrader Plate at the Festival in March when he saw off the challenge of Gavin Cromwell’s Thecompanysergeant by two and three-quarter lengths.

The JP McManus-owned star, who is trained by the partnership of Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero, is set to remain in handicap company for his first start of the campaign at his favoured distance of two and a half miles.

“He’s good, he looks fantastic, had a good gallop the other day and he’s ready to go for two weeks’ time at Cheltenham for the Paddy Power Gold Cup,” Guerriero said.

“He seems to like it there (at Cheltenham). It’s a competitive handicap so we can’t be too confident, but he will go there, we know he’ll like it so fingers crossed.

“If he jumps and goes in a good rhythm, he’ll have a good chance.

“We like to think he’s improved again, to look at, physically, he has, so fingers crossed we can win a couple of races and just improve all season again.

“We are just going to see how we get on in the Paddy Power and that will sort of guide us.

“If he wins that easy and goes up 10lb then all of a sudden you are in open company and all the big races, so it all depends on how we get on in the first couple of races.”