Sandymount Duke should relish step up to three miles

Sandymount Duke, from the in-form yard of Jessica Harrington, looks the best bet on tonight’s card in Kilbeggan.

This six-year-old, owned by Ronnie Wood of Rolling Stones fame, should relish the step-up to three miles in the T & V Novice Hurdle and is a confident choice.

Winner of a Listowel bumper last September and, fourth to Yorkhill in a hot winners’ event at the Punchestown Festival, Sandymount Duke was narrowly foiled by Willie Mullins’ French import Limini when he returned to hurdling in a two-mile maiden at Punchestown in mid-May.