Limerick Boy heads Lanzarote field

Limerick Boy heads a field of 11 declared for the feature Tote Scoop6 Lanzarote Hurdle at Kempton Park tomorrow.

The six-year-old top weight, trained by Venetia Williams, is on a retrieving mission having being pulled up at Newbury on his latest start in November.

Next in the weights on 11st 9lb is the Paul Nicholls-trained Perouse, who has finished first or second in his last five starts.

“He’s taken a big hike in the weights but obviously on his run at Cheltenham last time his well-being is still good,” Nicholls’s assistant Jeremy Young told attheraces.

“Hopefully the handicapper’s right. He has 11st 9lb and has a lot to do at the weights. There are a couple in at the bottom who could give him a big run for it.

“Ruby (Walsh) has always suggested that he is better right-handed, so who knows?”

Victor Dartnall is hoping that the going does not get any softer for his runner Hawadeth, who is set to carry 10st 11lb.

“He’s in good form. He needs no softer than good to soft. He’s not very big and I have always felt he would be a better horse with a lighter weight in better company,” said the Barnstaple trainer.

“He’s rated 125 which means that in a lot of races he’s going to be carrying top weights, but in these bigger handicaps he gets in with a light weight.

“He earned a lot of money last year just being placed in three of them.”

Greenhope (11st 1lb) bids to give trainer Nicky Henderson back-to-back victories in the £50,000 (€72,500) contest following Non So last January while Alan King saddles the unbeaten novice Kadount (11st 4lb).

Two trainers are double-handed: Martin Pipe saddling Golden Alpha and Idaho D’ox, and Richard Fahey sending Altay and Swan Knight down from his Malton base.