Ante-post favourite Bellshill in hat for RSA Chase at Cheltenham Festival

Ante-post favourite Bellshill tops the list of seven entries made by Willie Mullins for the RSA Chase at the Cheltenham Festival on March 15.The Graham Wylie-owned seven-year-old, who is the general 4-1 favourite for the three-mile Grade One contest, features among 55 entries received for the race.Nineteen horses from other yards in Ireland have also been entered, including the Eddie Harty-trained Coney Island.But one notable omission is the Jessica Harrington-trained Our Duke, who had been as short as 8-1 for the race.The British contingent is headed by the Nicky Henderson-trained Might Bite, a final-fence faller in a Grade One at Kempton, and Aux Ptits Soins, from the yard of Paul Nicholls. The four-mile JT McNamara National Hunt Chase, named in the memory of the former leading amateur rider who died in July, has attracted 71 entries. Twenty-six of the contenders are trained in Ireland, with six from the Mullins stable, including Bellshill. Gordon Elliott has four horses engaged, headed by 2014 Triumph Hurdle winner Tiger Roll. Other Irish possibles include the Mags Mullins-trained Martello Tower, successful in the 2015 Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle, and Mouse Morris' Alpha Des Obeaux. The British contingent features the likes of American, Singlefarmpayment, Arpege D'Alene and Calett Mad.