Hennessy an open and shut case for Beef Or Salmon

YOU would have to be forgiven for thinking that Beef Or Salmon will enjoy little more than a good school in the richly-endowed Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Leopardstown on Sunday.

No matter what way you look at it, the likelihood is this is going to be a very disappointing line-up.

Mouse Morris didn’t even enter War Of Attrition, preferring to go directly to Cheltenham, and Ted Walsh’s understandable decision not to throw Southern Vic in at the deep end means that Beef Or Salmon only has to repeat what he did in the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown at Christmas to win comfortably. He beat War Of Attrition by an unflattering four lengths then and had Hedgehunter a further 13 lengths away in fourth spot.