The ratings have been published for the 2019-20 National Hunt season, and Al Boum Photo and Cyrname are joint-top on 173
Nicky Henderson’s stable in Lambourn seems likely to offer the only serious challenge to
Irish dominance of the Cheltenham Festival in 2021 and beyond after the publication on Tuesday of the official ratings for the truncated 2019-20 National Hunt season.
Willie Mullins’s Al Boum Photo, the first horse to retain the Gold Cup since Best Mate in 2003, was the joint top-rated chaser alongside Paul Nicholls’s Cyrname, while Mullins’s Sharjah was the top-rated hurdler and Gordon Elliott, his biggest rival in
Ireland, supplied the top novice hurdler in Envoi Allen.