Compensation for Walsh as Seabass does the business

HAVING missed the ‘cut’ for the Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown, the Ted Walsh-trained Seabass gained a degree of compensation when making virtually all the running to land the Tim Duggan Memorial Handicap Chase at Limerick yesterday.

Following-up a recent win at Punchestown and stretching his winning sequence to five, the eight-year-old Turtle Island gelding jumped well in front for Katie Walsh and, when tackled by Tullintain, Start me Up and Silent Creek in the closing stages, stayed on dourly to triumph by two and three-quarter lengths.

A delighted Katie Walsh later commented: “He’s straight-forward - he jumps and gallops. He did it well, but I don’t know what the plan is for him now.”