Row in with Vic despite trip

SOUTHERN VIC, who has the Irish National at Fairyhouse in his sights, has a prep run in the Lobinstown Novice Chase at Navan this afternoon.

This two miles and a furlong is well short of the imposing seven-year-old’s best trip, but Ted Walsh’s charge is still a reasonably confident choice.

He comes here on the back of a mildly disappointing effort in the Grade One Moriarty Chase at Leopardstown last month, fading from the second last when fifth behind The Railway Man.