Gungadu and Madison du Berlais were winners for our list to follow today.
Of the other list horses Kinburn put up a good performance in the Warwick Classic. His jumping wasn’t exactly fluent but it was still an improvement on some earlier efforts. Ladalko was a worthy winner of the race. When his jumping holds together he has plenty of ability. I wonder how he would take to the Grand National fences?
Racing Demon made a mess of the first hurdle and ballooned the 2nd but was creeping into the race when he crashed out in the handicap hurdle. Verasi was a game winner for Gary Moore who trains near Brighton racecourse.
Royal Shakespeare got off the mark over hurdles in ground he wouldn’t have liked much while Secret Ploy won over hurdles for the first time. He has only been out of the first 3 once in his career and that was at the Cheltenham Festival.
Romany Prince won the handicap hurdle at Kempton, albeit being helped by a bad blunder at the last by the then leader. I remember following Romany Prince on the flat when he was trained by D Elsworth. I quite fancied him for the Chester Cup in 2003 but he was drawn 16 of 16 and was never able to get into the race. His dam is by Old Vic who is the dam of top chaser Our Vic.
List qualifiers tomorrow are as follows. All at Leopardstown.
12.50 Ballytrim
1.50 Oulart
2.20 Ross River
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