Dublin Racing Festival Sunday suggestions: Day 2 Leopardstown best bets
Our Irish professional runs the rule over Day 2 at the Dublin Racing Festival. Check out his three Leopardstown Sunday betting ideas below.
Check out our expert tipster’s three fancies below on a cracking day two card from the Foxrock track. You can learn our alternatives for day one.
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Leopardstown 3:30 tip: Kemboy able to rock
Bellshill received a sub-standard renewal of this contest a year ago, however he is a relative afterthought in the betting now after a high-class area of nine had been declared.
His stablemate Kemboy is fancied to reverse Christmas kind with Delta Work en path to giving Willie Mullins a record-extending 11th Irish Gold Cup success.
The early season uncertainty over his ownership syndicate certainly took some kind of toll on him. He lacked a prep run for the Savills Chase here last month and was just too free in his methods through the early a part of the race.
He wasn’t fluent in his leaping and, on delicate floor, his finishing effort was surely blunted. As noted later on this piece, that run got here at a time when Mullins’ string had been generally short of full power. That is not the case any longer.
Kemboy’s wins at Aintree and Punchestown last spring are the standout items of form in relation to this race. The prospect of a slightly sounder surfaces appeals but, greater than that, the sting must be off him now together with his run banked.
He can rating right here on the expense of Delta Work, while these looking for to swing for one at a value may absolutely do worse than Warren Greatrex’s mare La Bague Au Roi.
She was a winner at this Festival final 12 months – and capable of grabbing some prize money if again near her best kind now (a view held by her trainer).
Leopardstown 3:00 tip: Not so Easy for Faugheen
Loath as I am to do it, the pinnacle guidelines the center right here and so Faugheen must be opposed as favourite for what looks a fair renewal of the Grade 1 Flogas Novice Chase.
The former Champion Hurdler wet many an eye fixed over Christmas when successful round Limerick. Samcro came for the fight and Faugheen swatted him aside like a rag-doll. The constitution of that rival is open to all types of scrutiny as a result.
His Gordon Elliott-trained stablemate Battleoverdoyen is unlikely to go down as simply now, but neither is Faugheen’s fellow Closutton inmate Easy Game.
Robbie Power rides here and Easy Game was spectacular in seeing off well-fancied stablemate Allaho at Christmas time. That form has been franked since by the runner-up scoring simply at Fairyhouse.
Easy Game’s festive success came at a time when the Mullins yard weren’t firing on all cylinders, not a suggestion that can be levelled at them now (29 per-cent strike-rate lately).
He had earlier chased residence Honeysuckle over hurdles on his seasonal bow and appears to be a performer on the improve. Half of Faugheen’s age, he is a good price to turn over the legend on this contest.
Leopardstown 4:00 tip: Any Second Now a contender at a price
The JP McManus-owned Any Second Now is nicely worth considering within the Gaelic Plant Hire Leopardstown Handicap Chase.
Last season’s Kim Muir winner at Cheltenham, he took on graded contests at Cork and Punchestown on his first two starts back this season before a promising run right here at Christmas.
He was still transferring with loads of function when badly hampered 4 out in a race where the complexion changed dramatically on multiple occasion late on.
His form lately is over further but Any Second Now has proved himself over this type of trip in the past too and should be successful again off a mark of one hundred fifty this season, on the current proof.
This is broad open fare, however he’ll be an each-way price and is clearly taking high-rank among a plethora of McManus-owned contenders in the field (ten).