Ferdy Murphy Mulling Over Boylesports Bid

Ferdy Murphy is keen to let Three Mirrors return to Cheltenham next month following his fine effort in defeat in the Paddy Power Gold Cup.

The eight-year-old was having his first outing of the campaign at Prestbury Park less than two weeks ago and he could return to the venue for the valuable Boylesports.com Gold Cup on December 13.

Also under consideration for the Grade Three contest are L’Antartique, who Murphy saddled to win the Paddy Power 12 months ago, and Aces Four, who is on the comeback trail following a stop-start campaign last season.

“Three Mirrors will have an entry in the Boylesports.com Gold Cup and we’ll probably enter L’Antartique and Aces Four as well,” said Murphy.

“Three Mirrors ran a really good race in the Paddy Power. I’m happy with the horse and if we got a bit of dry ground, we’d be very keen to go back to Cheltenham.

“L’Antartique is likely to run in the Rehearsal Chase at Newcastle on Saturday, along with Aces Four, just to get a run into them both.

“We’d have a look at the Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon (December 11) as a possibility for one of them, rather than the Boylesports, but both of them will definitely have entries in the Cheltenham race.

“Aces Four is very well, we’re looking forward to running him soon and he’s going to go for the King George at Kempton on Boxing Day.

“He’s coming back after a bit of a break so I’m looking to get a couple of runs into him before then.”