Versatile Glenquest set to tackle Eider Chase
The Stuart Crawford-trained twelve-year-old, registering his second hurdle success of the campaign, scored readily under Andrew Lynch, beating Seriatim, eased down, by five lengths, with favourite Spacious Sky a disappointing third.
Lynch commented: “He did it well there.
“He was the class horse of the race and, off that mark, all he had to do was replicate his Chepstow run.”
John ‘Shark’ Hanlon declared: “He’s a horse with a big future, a real chaser a couple of years down the road,” after Cape City Boy, which he sold to Barry Connell after his promising debut second at Naas last month, turned over morning gamble The West’s Awake in the bumper.
Apparently on and off the bridle from halfway, the Cape Cross gelding edged past the favourite before the furlong-pole and stretched clear for Finny Maguire to triumph by eight lengths, prompting Hanlon to add: “He’s huge, a big baby, seventeen hands. He was very green and a bit unlucky in Naas. But he did it well today – the first two were twenty clear of the rest.”
- More Of That is very unlikely to defend his crown in the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival next month after breaking a blood vessel following a piece of work yesterday.
O’Neill said: “As part of his build up to Cheltenham, More Of That galloped at Compton this morning with AP [McCoy] in the saddle and pleased everyone with his work.
“But when he returned to the yard he was found to have bled and as things stand I would have to say that he is now an unlikely runner at Cheltenham as time is not on our side.”
