Faasel rolls back the years22nd February 2012
Faasel could try to make it third time lucky in the Kim Muir Challenge Cup at Cheltenham after winning for the first time since November 2008.
The 11-year-old has finished second in the last two runnings of the Festival's amateur riders' handicap chase, and showed he was no back number when landing the 32Red Veterans' Handicap Chase at Doncaster.
Faasel had been trained by Nicky Richards for his last success and finally opened his account for David Pipe when giving jockey Tom Scudamore his 50th win of the season. After shrugging aside the pace-setting Wogan, he galloped on strongly to beat Atouchbetweencara by three lengths.