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Big-money weekend with reputations on the line

The first of the weekend’s four handicaps, the three-mile handicap hurdle, is next up and it is very difficult to solve.
Big-money weekend with reputations on the line

BIG WEEKEND IN STORE: Predators Gold & Paul Townend win the Court Clinic Maiden Hurdle. Pic: HEALY RACING

On February 3, 2018, Tower Bridge, trained by Joseph O’Brien and ridden by JJ Slevin for JP McManus, swept late and wide to win the first race at the inaugural Dublin Racing Festival.

At 25/1, it was hardly the start punters wanted, and probably one Leopardstown didn't want either, as it sought to sell its new marquee National Hunt meeting to a ram-packed Leopardstown.

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