Punchestown races

Pub Crawl is Newsboy's Nap for Thursday, April 28. At Punchestown races, Sire De Berlais and Go Another One are expected to deliver on the big stage for ...

Read More Read More Simply register, place a £10 wager on the selection of your choice and you will qualify for the best welcome offer in town! Betfred is offering new customers £60 in FREE BETS and BONUSES when you sign up and bet £10 on ANY horse race. But my selection ran on strongly to take a length-and-a-quarter second to New Pursuit and a 1lb nudge up the weights may not be enough to stop Pub Crawl, who should be suited by the step up in trip, from going one better. Sent off at 17-2 in a field of nine, Dylan Hogan's mount began to feel the heat with two furlongs of the extended mile to run. PUB CRAWL should profit for the chance to tackle 10 furlongs for the first time in the Racing TV Profits Returned To Racing Handicap (2.10) at Redcar today. A 150-1 second at Leicester on April Fool’s Day earned the Michael Bell trainee a British Horseracing Authority handicap mark of 77 - an assessment he put to the test on his debut in the sphere at Epsom nine days ago.

Our Irish racing expert has four bets for Thursday. Watch every race live on Racing TV!

The favourite, James’s Gate, should win this and he holds Music Drive on Cheltenham Festival form. I doubt Vanillier will ever jump fences again but on last season's novice hurdle form, he must have a reasonable chance here. Klassical Dream is a shocking price here.

Punchestown Festival Day 3 Tips as HorseRacing.net provide Betting Selections and analysis for the Races on Thursday at the 2022 edition of the Punchestown…

However, BLUE LORD could be the value alternative to the favourite, as having racked up some notable wins he slightly disappointed when third in the Arkle Challenge Trophy at the Cheltenham Festival in March. He's much better than that seven length defeat, and if he can get into a rhythm over his fences then he could well put it up to his stablemate Gentleman De Mee, who will fail to build on his Grade 1 novice chase win at Aintree. A facile nine-length winner of this event 12 months ago, Klassical Dream will attempt to replicate that success on Thursday, but he failed to fire in the closing stages of the Stayers' Hurdle at last month's Cheltenham Festival, and it's hard to back him with significant confidence at such short odds. A devilishly difficult assignment for punters to work out and with the bookmakers going 8/1 the field, at the time of writing, that just highlights what a competitive race is in order. Grange Walk appeared to have the measure of MT LEINSTER when they clashed at Fairyhouse a few weeks ago, but the former crashed to the turf two fences from home and it was left to the Willie Mullins-trained raider Mt Leinster to storm to victory, as he made it back-to-back wins. A real punting head-scratcher to start off the day, but Henry De Bromhead's HIDE AND SEEK was an impressive ten-length winner of a mares' maiden hurdle last time out at Tramore, and the five-year-old mare will look to show her class in handicap company on Thursday afternoon. Singing Banjo lines up as the reigning champion and has to be respected, but it's the Enda Bolger-trained SHADY OPERATOR that can bound to La Touche Cup glory, as the course winner can relish a return to Punchestown and show is class in an intriguing renewal.

Today's Punchestown Gold Cup is a cracking renewal and I'm delighted to be on Minella Indo. He ran a cracker in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

I partner Crosshill in the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel Hurdle and I think he has a definite chance. But Redemption Day went to Cheltenham with a huge reputation and disappointed. He was going to be second to Sir Gerhard in the Ballymore at the Cheltenham Festival when he fell at the last and I think stepping up to three miles will suit him. I think Journey With Me is a horse that could be a bit overpriced. The Irish Mirror Novice Hurdle is a very hard race to call. He went to Cheltenham with a huge reputation and back here over three miles, I think he could be a bit of value to overturn the Willie Mullins battalion.

Day three of the Punchestown festival is here – but who do our top tipsters fancy most?

5.25 Punchestown: 'I hope he can behave himself, he has the ability' – Townend on Klassical Dream Horses who ran in the Stayers' Hurdle at Cheltenham don't have a good record in this, but Klassical Dream fits all the other trends and is taken to make it back-to-back wins in the race. Day three of the Punchestown festival is here – but who do two of our top tipsters fancy most?

Paisley Park can strike for the visitors in the Ladbrokes Stayers Hurdle.

One of the more prevalent of the ‘pro-five-day’ arguments is that Ireland’s big National Hunt jamboree at Punchestown runs fives days and is none the worse for it. He seems in really good shape, so we’ll see what happens.” It seems counterintuitive to hope for an English win at Punchestown, but a few more of them might tempt Lavelle’s compatriots to postpone the holidays for their better horses and bring some more talent to the Punchestown party. “Touch wood, he’s in really good order, looks great and we’ll see how it goes,” she said earlier this week. For instance, look at today’s card at the Kildare track. This completely misses the point.

There are eight races today with action kicking off at 3.40 pm in the Mares Novice Hurdle while all eyes will be on The William Hill Champion Steeplechase at ...

5 Deja Vue (IRE) Shane FitzGerald (5) 7 Maze Runner (IRE) Kieran Callaghan (7) 5 Rebel Gold (IRE) Jack Foley (5)

However, with the dual-Cheltenham Stayers champion Flooring Porter absent, it is last year's winner Klassical Dream who tops the betting to become the first ...

On that evidence the stamina division looked his to dominate this season given a clear run with injuries. There will be no more popular La Touche winner than Peter Maher’s veteran 15 year old Ballyboker Bridge who will try to repeat his 2019 success. Enda Bolger hasn’t won since 2018 which constitutes a near-famine for the ‘Banks King’ with 14 La Touche victories in all.