Al Boum Photo, the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, leads a strong Willie Mullins team at Auteuil

Double Cheltenham Gold Cup victor Al Boum Photo is set to initiate areas of strength for a from Willie Mullins on two of the features of the French leaps season, live on Sky Sports Racing.

The 10-year-old is one of three arranged sprinters for the various Irish top dog mentor in Sunday’s Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris at Auteuil, with Franco De Port and Burrows Saint likewise planned for to handle the three-mile-six-furlong challenge.

Al Boum Photo will have recently his fourth beginning in 2022, having started off the year with a fourth success in the Savills New Year’s Day Chase – a race where he beat Burrows Saint – prior to proceeding to complete 6th at Cheltenham and third behind stablemate Allaho in the Punchestown Gold Cup last break.

Customary rider Paul Townend picked to ride Allaho as opposed to Al Boum Photo at Punchestown, however Mullins anticipates that the team should be brought together in the Grade One challenge at the end of the week.

He said: “We’re anticipating getting back over to Auteuil and we’re simply trusting something can fly a banner for us.

“I think he’d be the best pony we’ve run in this, he’d absolutely have the most noteworthy rating. He doesn’t have that numerous miles on the clock however despite the fact that he’s 10 years old, he’s still extremely new and well.

“Paul will ride I envision. It will be hard to get off him, he did the last day yet going to France, it would be challenging to get off.”