Albion chairman Tony Bloom is celebrating a winner at Cheltenham.

His horse, Penhill, won the Albert Bartlett Hurdle at the big National Hunt Festival today, at rewarding odds of 16-1.

Bloom was there to see jockey Paul Townend, wearing his blue and white colours, send the Willie Mullins-trained Penhill clear on the run-in and to lead his horse into the winners' enclosure.

Bloom said: "I'm over the moon for everyone involved, it was a great ride by Paul and it's a brilliant horse we have here.

"He was looking good all the way and two out we were expecting him to win, his hurdling was a lot better than it has been and he's got the pace.

"Racing over three miles has been the making of him, as it gives him more time for his jumping.

 

"I haven't had many Cheltenham runners, so it is very exciting. I've brought a lot of friends and they're all on at 16 and 20-1."

Penhill gave Townend a last day double in the race before the Gold cup and the sixth winner of the meeting for the powerful Irish yard of Mullins.

Townend said: "He's a class horse, we kept him wide to get into a rhythm. I won on him over three miles at Christmas at Limerick on heavy ground and he saw it out really well."