Top Strategy can confirm standing

TED WALH’S Top Strategy can stamp himself the best four-year-old timber-topper in the country by giving weight and a beating to his rivals in this afternoon’s Panoramic Restaurant Juvenile Hurdle at Punchestown, assuming the meeting passes an early morning inspection.

If the green light is given then the ability to handle the testing conditions will be vital, but that should hold no real fears for the son of Hernando.

He revelled in soft ground when getting off the mark over jumps in fine style at Leopardstown at Christmas, in the Grade Two Denny Hurdle, beating Al Eile by three and a half lengths.