Breaken heads the betting for the beginners' chase at Leopardstown© Photo Healy Racing
There are some significant non-runners at Leopaardstown this afternoon with the well-touted Grand Jury (stone bruise) now an absentee from the concluding bumper at 5.00pm.
The Willie Mullins-trained Prize Fighter a half-brother to Getabird, is now 2/1 favourite to make a winning debut.
Mullins now has the favourites in both divisions of the maiden hurdle with Grand Bornard in the 1.20pm and Elite Charbonniere in the 1.50pm both currently a shade of odds-on, after Don Diablo (stiff) was scratched from the latter event.
Another Mullins runner, Eurotiep is a prohibitively-priced market leader in race three at 2.20pm with Breakeven (allergy) and Hesamanofhisword (ran yesterday) missing out to leave a field of just four.
In the beginners’ chase at 4.00pm, Faugernon and Jungle Junction have both been taken out due to the drying (officially good to yielding) ground and yet another from Closuttton heads the betting here with Breaken generally around the 5/4 mark ahead of Peter Fahey’s Soviet Pimpernel at 11/4 in what is still a competitive heat.
