After a stellar Saturday of racing action, there are three more meetings to savour on Sunday including a trio of Grade 1 races from Ireland.
Huntingdon and Kelso are the venues in the UK, with the Grade 2 Peterborough Chase the feature at the former, while Honeysuckle's return to action in the Hatton's Grace Hurdle is the star attraction on a scintillating Fairyhouse card.
Our Sunday fancies include a fast-improving chaser from the Joseph O'Brien yard going for Grade 1 novice honours.
Selections
- Fairyhouse 13.55 - Banbridge @ 3/1
- Huntingdon 13.15 - Father Of Jazz @ 3/1
- Fairyhouse 12.55 - Punitive @ 13/2
Tip 1
Honeysuckle will probably ensure the Hatton's Grace is one-sided but the pair of novice Grade 1s before that at Fairyhouse are superb contests and BANBRIDGE (3/1) is very much the fancy in the Drinmore (1.55).
Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott can account for seven of the 11 runners, though Ireland's champion trainer last won this in 2014 with Valseur Lido and he doesn't appear to have a clear cut first string.
Elliott, with four wins since 2015, has both Three Stripe Life and Mighty Potter in the mix, though neither was completely convincing in their chasing debuts last month.
Completely convincing is exactly what Banbridge has been in two runs this season over the larger obstacles for Joseph O'Brien.
He won as he pleased at Gowran first time out and then returned to Cheltenham - where he was a Festival-winning hurdler in the spring over this trip - to win an Arkle trial over two-miles last month. His jumping was superb again in front and he might well have too many guns for the Elliott pair and the arrows Mullins throws at this target.
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Tip 2
It was another Saturday afternoon to savour for Dan and Harry Skelton as they won the Becher Chase at Aintree, making it a hat-trick of big winners on the weekend for them in recent weeks.
FATHER OF JAZZ (3/1) is going to jump hurdles for the first time in public in the Fitzdares Looking Forward To HWPAs Tomorrow Novices' Hurdle (13.15) at Huntingdon and he's a potentially classy recruit to this discipline.
The son of Kingman reached a peak rating of 104 on the Flat and was primarily campaigned in Group and Listed races in that discipline - he could be a cut above these rivals and with the Skelton team in flying form, can make a perfect start.
Tip 3
The Porterstown Handicap Chase (12.55) is amongst the early contests at Fairyhouse on Sunday and it could be a good opportunity for PUNITIVE (13/2) to put his recent Troytown mishap behind him.
He was runner-up at Galway (2m2f, soft to heavy) and Cheltenham (3m1f, good) before unseating early doors in that very competitive Troytown at Navan a week ago. His jumping is normally reliable, so it's worth forgiving that misfortune and he had looked to be building towards something with those two earlier runs.
Elliott has landed three of the last four renewals of this contest and from an unchanged mark of 129 the Jordan Gainford-ridden Punitive may be good enough to further embellish that record for the Cullentra chief.
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