Royal Recital (left)© Photo Healy Racing
Royal Recital got off the mark in the Bruff Handicap Hurdle at Limerick today, improving on two recent runner-up efforts to win for trainer Ross O'Sullivan and jockey Cathal Landers.
The son of Recital had finished second at Navan and Tramore in recent weeks and today squeezed through along the inside rail to edge ahead on the run-in and beat Master Cornwall by a length and a quarter.
O'Sullivan later reported “it is a Laois contingent of owners and the horse has got better with every run. He has a bit of size, will jump a fence and handles good ground really well.
“I was worried a little about the ground but Cathal Landers walked the ground yesterday and said Val (O'Connell, Clerk of the Course) was doing a very good job on it and it was in great nick.
“In fairness Cathal knows the horse for a long time and has done a lot of work with the horse, a lot of schooling, and deserves all the credit.” Viking Hoard at the centre of a nobbling scandal from 2018, was a well beaten 9/2 joint-favourite in the race.
