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The Irish contingent also includes bargain buy Hewick, who cost just £800 and won the King George VI Chase in 2023, plus last year's third-place finisher and 2021 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Minella Indo, as well as 2024 Irish Grand National victor Intense Raffles.

It is either Going for Gold or Total Wipeout for the Liberal Democrats at next year's Senedd election.

If the party plays its cards right, Welsh leader Jane Dodds is still confident they could "paint Wales Lib Dem gold" on election night.

"We'll have gold everywhere. Look at what we did in England. No-one thought we would win 72 seats. The results were coming in fast and furious that night and I reckon it is going to be like that next May as well," she said.

Earlier Asian markets had slid, while the price of gold, which is seen as a safer assest in times of turbulance, climbed to a record high.