Eustace tops Hurdle field

HARDY EUSTACE heads a quality field of 12 in the Scottish And Newcastle Aintree Hurdle tomorrow.

Fri, 07 Apr, 2006 - 01:00
Keith Hamer

The dual Champion Hurdle winner was third behind Brave Inca last time as his bid to win three successive Champions at Cheltenham was thwarted.

Six lengths behind Dessie Hughes’s runner that day was Al Eile but John Queally’s six-year-old took this race 12 months ago when beating World Hurdle winner Inglis Drever by a neck.

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