Bowes hoping that Solerina can maintain form for Bewley’s test

MICHAEL BOWE hopes that Solerina has retained her form ahead of a mouth-watering rematch with Hardy Eustace in the Bewleys Hotels Christmas Hurdle at Leopardstown today.

The seven-year-old mare has run five times in the past eight weeks, winning on four occasions and finishing second in the other.

She captured the scalp of Smurfit Champion Hurdle winner Hardy Eustace for her latest success at Navan earlier this month and Bowe fears Dessie Hughes’s runner this time.