Vinnie can shrug off top weight

VINNIE ROE is fancied to shrug off top weight, the steadier of 10-2, and make a winning reappearance in the listed Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.

Dermot Weld’s admirable six-year-old has done the business first time up for the past two campaigns and that is, obviously, encouraging. He was last seen back in October when finishing fourth in the French Leger at Longchamp, in a contest run in very testing conditions.

Previously, Vinnie Roe ran a cracker in the Arc at Longchamp, fifth to Dalakhani. His only other two races were at home, landing a Listed event at Leopardstown and a third Irish Leger at the Curragh.