Yorkhill 'could be' Gold Cup contender Willie Mullins believes Yorkhill did enough in the JLT Novices' Chase at the Festival to make him a worthy contender for next season's Cheltenham Gold Cup. The seven-year-old is unbeaten in three tries over fences and is already as low as 6-1 about winning the Gold Cup next March. His trainer said: "Yorkhill is settling and he is jumping. "That he can jump around Cheltenham and that his pedigree is a real old-fashioned chasing one would tell me the progression would be the Gold Cup on that performance. "He's learning and maturing. This time next year he could be that (Gold Cup) direction."
