Euro to lead the way

EURO LEADER gets the nap to take the Frank Hannon Memorial Handicap Chase on a wickedly competitive card at Roscommon this evening.

It will be the selection’s first venture into this company, but the seven-year-old, arguably, doesn’t appear too harshly treated! Euro Leader got off the mark over fences in a moderate event at the first time of asking at Limerick and was then highly tried in two subsequent races.

He ran well for a long way behind Like-A-Butterfly in the Powers’ Gold Cup at Fairyhouse and was then predictably outclassed when a well-beaten fourth to War Of Attrition in a Grade One at Punchestown. This is much more his grade and Euro Leader may well improve significantly now that he gets a decent surface.