Beef off Clonmel menu

MICHAEL HOURIGAN yesterday confirmed that Beef Or Salmon will definitely miss the €60,000 Grade Two Clonmel Oil Chase at the Tipperary track next Thursday.

“The over-reach he suffered at Down Royal is just too deep”, said Hourigan. “He has been to the sea all this week and will make several more visits.

“I’ve put him in the Durkan at Punchestown and the plan is to go either for that or the O’Connell Chase at Cork, before the Lexus (formerly the Ericsson) at Leopardstown at Christmas.”