O’Grady has SunAlliance hopes for Catch Me

YOU don't travel to Tipperary on an April evening and expect to see a potential SunAlliance Novices' Hurdle horse in action, but that was precisely the case last night.

Edward O'Grady's Catch Me won the Thomastown Castle Race over 14 furlongs in smooth style and was quickly nominated a Cheltenham possibility for next March by his astute handler.

“He will either head next for the Vintage Crop Stakes (Navan) or else go out on grass”, said O'Grady. “It's been nice to get these two runs into him (he scored previously at the Curragh), but I think he might be a SunAlliance horse. He jumps well and that will be his target next season.”