1st - €6,600.00 2nd - €2,200.00 3rd - €1,100.00 4th - €550.00 5th - €330.00 6th - €220.00

FormscanBy John O'Riordan - Former leading novice hurdler ASIAN MASTER can land a first track win since January 2024. Following that impressive success at Navan, the gelding went on to finish an honourable fourth in that seasons Supreme Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham. Although never matching that form in five runs over regulation fences, the nine-year-old has added a further two wins since returning to point-to-pointing. If able to replicate those efforts here, he looks the one to beat. A Grade 2 winner over fences in his prime, Journey With Me has failed to score again since reverting to this discipline. However, he should be suited to this intermediate trip. In Excelsis Deo also boasts claims if his jumping stands up.

A steeplechase for ] Certified Hunters five years old and upwards that have between 1st October, 2022 and 31st March, 2026 been placed either first, second, third or fourth in a Point-To-Point Steeplechase in Ireland or Great Britain or in a Certified Hunters Steeplechase in Ireland or Great Britain and that have not won a race under any N.H. Rules or Rules of Racing after 1st March, 2025 other than a Certified Hunters Steeplechase or a Farmers Race
Weights - 12st. Mares allowed 7lbs.
Riders - Qualified Riders under I.N.H.S. Rules. ? A Hunters Certificate valid in accordance with Rule 78 for the 2025/2026 season for each horse engaged must be registered at the Offices of the INHSC, The Curragh, Co. Kildare not later than 31st March, or the horse will not be qualified to start. In the case of horses from Great Britain, Hunters Certificates must have been duly registered at the Racing Calendar Office. The IHRB have modified the relevant Rules to permit horses for which Hunters Certificates have been registered and which are eligible to run in Hunters Steeplechases in Great Britain to run in this race. However, horses with a Hunters Certificate that have run in any race other than a Hunters Steeplechase since 1st December, 2025 are excluded. A person who is registered as a current Keeper with the British Horseracing Authority may enter and run a horse in this race.