1.15 3m. 7 Declared. Leopardstown Christmas H'dle (Grade 1) of €100,000.00 4-y-o plus
1st - €60,000.00 2nd - €20,000.00 3rd - €10,000.00 4th - €5,000.00 5th - €3,000.00 6th - €2,000.00
FormscanBy Alan Magee - SIRE DU BERLAIS has landed the last two renewals of the Pertemps Network Final at the Cheltenham Festival, and the eight-year-old showed he’s now better than a high-class handicapper when making a successful reappearance in the Grade 2 Lismullen Hurdle at Navan. The Gordon Elliott-trained gelding accounted for French Dynamite and Sixshooter and is now taken to make his mark at the highest level. Ronald Pump was running a fine race when falling at the last in the Lismullen and has since finished strongly behind Honeysuckle in the Hatton’s Grace. Elliott holds a strong hand here with The Storyteller, a Grade 1 winner over fences last time, and Fury Road whose stamina is also proven having been just denied in the Albert Bartlett at Cheltenham last March.
A hurdle for four years old and upwardsWeights - 4-y-o 11st 7lbs 5-y-o and up 11st 12lbs Mares allowed 7lbs