Knockfierna can cap remarkable week for Geraghty

Knockfierna will be expected to round-off a remarkable week for Barry Geraghty by landing the Grade 3 Dawn Run Mares Novice Chase in Limerick tomorrow.

The Cheltenham Festival’s leading rider is a significant booking for the Charles Byrnes-trained mare, already a three-time winner over fences, most recently when beating Belle Brook at Thurles in January.

But it’s Knockfierna’s only defeat in her last four starts which makes particularly interesting reading — she was upsides Thursday’s Jewson Novices Chase winner Sir Des Champs in a Grade 2 event at Limerick when running out going to the second last.