The Cheltenham Festival / Timeform / 16 March 2012 /

Brindisi Breeze landed a rare Scottish win at the Cheltenham Festival when Lucinda Russell's charge upset the Irish banker Boston Bob in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle...

Jockey Campbell Gillies was always up with the pace on the six-year-old and cut out most of the running along with Big Occasion.

Boston Bob looked as though he might peg back the leader, but Brindisi Breeze, sent off ([9.0]) kept up the gallop to beat the ([2.5]) favourite by two lengths.

Grand Vision ([29.0]) was another length and a quarter away in third.

said: "It's great for Scotland and all of the team.

"We came here confident but he's blown us away again.

"He just pricked his ears the whole of the time.

"He's very genuine and he just keeps galloping - he's got the lot.

"All credit to him, he's a real athlete."

Big Occasion and Brindisi Breeze took no prisoners as they ensured a good pace from the start, while Ruby Walsh held a slightly wayward Boston Bob towards the back of the field.

Big Occasion lost his pitch after three out, where Brindisi Breeze kicked for home.

Gillies' mount kept finding more every time as Meister Eckhart, Grand Vision and then Boston Bob tried to overhaul him.

But there was no stopping the raider from the north of the border as he swept to a clear-cut victory the hard way.

Russell said: "It's just fantastic as his owner, Sandy Seymour, only has one horse.

"It's what you work for. You spend all winter trying to put them in the right races and it's just amazing that the right race happens to be at Cheltenham.

"He's very tough - he doesn't like horses passing him.

"He's not the fastest in the world - he doesn't burn up the gallops - but he's so brave and he jumps quickly.

"He'll be a fantastic chaser and that's what he'll be doing next season."

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