Cheltenham News: Gordon Elliott envious of Dysart Dynamo and Bob Olinger
Dysart Dynamo could run at Punchestown on Sunday
Irish trainer Gordon Elliott has a string of top-quality horses heading to Cheltenham but he is full of respect for runners from Willie Mullins and Henry De Bromhead.
Gordon Elliott has a host of leading contenders for the Cheltenham Festival but is impressed with Henry De Bromhead's Bob Olinger and Willie Mullins' Dysart Dyamo as the clock ticks down to the big one in the Cotswolds.
The exciting pair, trained by Bromhead and Mullins respectively, are strong fancies for the Turners Novices' Chase (Bob Olinger) and the Supreme or Ballymore Novices' Hurdles (Dysart Dynamo), but they have caught the eye of the rival trainer.
Elliott has his own possible representatives in each of those races, but asked this week for a novice chaser and novice hurdler to follow at the big meeting from a yard other than his own, the Cullentra trainer found that these two rolled off the tongue
He said: "I saw Bob Olinger schooling in Navan (last week), it was just getting dark and you could only really see him over the last two fences and it looked like he jumped them awesome.
"And without trying to sound like the great man Ruby Walsh, I just loved the way he went from the last to the line. From what I saw, I was very impressed.
"I thought Dysart Dynamo was good in Punchestown, he looked awesome from what I saw. It was only a Grade Two, but that's as impressive on the eye that I've seen (in the novice division). Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. He's not one of ours, but I thought he looked good."
Bob Olinger is pushing odds-on for the Turners while Dysart Dyamo can be picked up at 5/2 for the Supreme.
