Ricci looking forward to bumper crop Rich Ricci has highlighted Fulham Road as a horse to follow in bumpers this season. Owner Ricci has a list of superstars housed at Willie Mullins' powerbase in County Carlow, but rates the five-year-old Shantou gelding highly. He told At The Races: "The clear outstanding bumper horse for us is Fulham Road. "He fell in his point-to-point and was close to the top of the heap of our bumper horses last season and all our bumper horses won last year. "He would be the one we'd be most looking forward to. I know Patrick (Mullins) is quite keen on him. "From a bumper perspective, he's our best by far. He'd be top of the tree of mine and hopefully in the top quartile of the bumper horses in Ireland." Ricci also gave a favourable mention to Tarare, a six-year-old Astarabad gelding. He said: "He has always shown a ton of ability. He's had a couple of setbacks, but he seems to be on track to come back this year." And he added that Vigoville was another to have shown "great promise".
