As far as early season Handicap Chases go you really can't beat the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury.

Sure, this renewal probably wasn’t one of the strongest Hennessy Gold Cups in recent times but that shouldn’t detract from the dogged battling qualities of the winner Native River, who was on the sharp end most of the way and then battled back like a tiger when headed around 2 from home, digging in even deeper when challenged on the lung-bursting run to the line. 

It was just the Hennessy keeping our National Hunt fires alight this weekend though and in this weeks 'What we learned from the weekend' I'm looking at...

Cheers