Kempes shouldn’t waste this opportunity
Frances Crowley’s charge will arrive on the back of a decent enough effort on this track last month and has plenty going for him now.
On that occasion, he ran near the front throughout, before fading in the closing stages to finish a close fourth behind Harchibald.
The selection meets principal danger, Prince Erik, on exactly the same terms as in a handicap, but Kempes is fancied to outbattle Dermot Weld’s grey.
Adare Manor can defy a hefty rise in the weights in the Jack Doran Motors Handicap.
Charles O’Brien’s four-year-old produced a nice turn of foot to beat Cosmo King here earlier in the month aand can make light of a 9lbs hike.
Noel Meade’s horse are starting to hit some real form and his Queen Althea gets the vote in the Euro Construction Apprentice Handicap.
Rested since disappointing over hurdles at Cork in November, she previously went under by three parts of a length to Rockys Choice over a mile and six at Leopardstown.
Zars Gold, a promising fourth to Dermot Weld’s Labaqa at Leopardstown in October, should go close in the Hillgrove Hotel Auction Maiden.
