Days Hotel makes all for Grade 2 hat-trick

Days Hotel, enterprisingly ridden by Andrew Lynch, captured the Grade 2 Paddy Power Over 260 Shops Nationwide Chase for the third time in Naas yesterday.

The Henry de Bromhead-trained eleven-year-old, previously successful in 2013 and 2014, dictated the pace, jumping well, and was never seriously threatened as he kept going up the hill to beat Twinlight by seven and a half lengths with uneasy 11/10 favourite Simply Ned, a rare British challenger at Naas, a tired third.

“It’s great to have him back as he had a problem last year,” stated de Bromhead. “He got a super ride from Andrew and conditions were ideal – the bare two miles in that heavy ground. He seems to struggle over the extra furlong in some of his races, when you can’t really ride him flat-out.