Underestimate Sports Line at your peril

IT isn’t very often a horse heads to the racecourse seeking a four-timer, gets beaten and emerges with reputation not just intact, but enhanced.

I feel that was the case with Sports Line, who was mugged late by An Cathaoir Mor in the Arkle at Leopardstown last Sunday.

Sports Line went to Leopardstown unbeaten for over a year. In that time he had two hurdle races and then made a first-class debut over fences at Navan.