Stay loyal to Focus

LOYAL FOCUS, fresh from a lucrative Galway, can land the AIB Hurdle at Tramore this evening.

Dermot Weld has identified a very suitable opportunity for his six-year-old and it will be disappointing should he fail to give us a big run.

He won the GPT Handicap in tremendous style at Ballybrit, racing on the pace throughout, before forging clear to beat Essex by nine lengths. Three days later, Loyal Focus took his place in the Guinness Galway Hurdle and was far from disgraced, only fading between the last two flights to eventually finish eighth behind the impressive, Farmer Brown. This looks a lot easier!