Vautour set to reappear at Ascot Willie Mullins has confirmed Vautour is likely to travel to Ascot to make his seasonal reappearance in Saturday's Stella Artois 1965 Chase. The six-year-old won at the Cheltenham Festival for the second successive year with a mesmerising performance in the JLT Novices' Chase in March and heads ante-post lists for both the King George VI Chase at Kempton and the Cheltenham Gold Cup. "Vautour will probably run at Ascot on Saturday. He's working well and is in good form," said Mullins. Set to take on Vautour in the two-mile-five-furlong Grade Two is the long-absent O'Faolains Boy. The Rebecca Curtis-trained 2014 RSA Chase winner missed last season with a tendon injury and has not been seen since finishing fifth in the Mildmay Novices' Chase at Aintree in April of last year. He also holds an entry in the Betfair Chase at Haydock on the same afternoon, but is set to head for Berkshire. "O'Faolains Boy definitely runs this weekend and I would probably say that we will go to Ascot with him," said Curtis. "Haydock is probably the better distance for him but I just think after a long layoff he doesn't need a hard first run back to start. "They will go a flat-out gallop all the way in the Betfair and there will be no chance to get a breather into him. "I've got to think of further down the line and this will be a good prep run." Trainer David Bridgwater gave stable stalwart The Giant Bolster an entry at Ascot, but he is unlikely to take up his engagement. Retirement was considered over the summer, but connections have decided to bring him back and he is set to reappear in the Hennessy Gold Cup on Saturday week. Bridgwater said: "We'll wait for Newbury, I'd have thought. "He seems fine at home. We're happy with him and in good form. "We'll see what happens in the Hennessy before we make any plans."
