Time for Statesman to deliver

The frustrating Elegant Statesman is given a final chance to reveal his true colours in the Guinness Handicap Chase at Galway this evening.

A useful enough hurdler, Henry de Bromhead’s charge always shaped as if this was going to be his true calling, but has essentially been disappointing.

One also felt that staying was sure to be his game, but that sort of thinking seems to have been quite wrong as well.