Lexus switch for The Listener

THE LISTENER will head for Leopardstown’s Lexus Chase on December 28 rather than run in tomorrow’s rearranged John Durkan Memorial Chase at Fairyhouse.

“We’re putting a line through the John Durkan as it’s been too much of a mix-up for us,” said trainer Nick Mitchell.

“It would have been nice to have run in the John Durkan as he’s in such good form, but after his injury we didn’t want to take him over to Ireland and then find out it was off again.