1st - €60,000.00 2nd - €20,000.00 3rd - €10,000.00 4th - €5,000.00

FormscanBy Tom Weekes - Reappearing NOUVOTIC steps up in grade but today’s race will have been a target and he has suitable ground conditions. Although beaten from a hurdles rating of just 115 at last year’s festival, he is lightly-raced and remains a little unexposed as a seven-year-old chaser. He is 8lb higher than when scoring at Wexford, with that race’s runner-up franking the form in finishing fourth in Cheltenham’s Grand Annual last month. King Alexander ran well in Cheltenham’s novices’ handicap chase while top weight Down Memory Lane was Grade 1-placed in December 2024 and won a Listed chase last December. Veteran Jesse Evans was Grade 1 course-placed last year and while he finished a fine second in July’ Galway Plate, is 2lb higher and without his then rider’s 7lb claim.

An extended handicap steeplechase for five years old and upwards that have run at least four times in steeplechases up to and including 19th April 2026
Penalties - Winner of a steeplechase or steeplechases after calculation of the handicap shall carry any penalty or penalties which may be allotted by the Handicapper.