No Beef on Gowran menu

Beef Or Salmon will miss Saturday’s National Lottery Agent Champion Chase at Gowran Park due to fast ground and will instead run on the Flat in the Irish Cesarewitch at the Curragh a day later.

Michael Hourigan is hoping to give the nine-year-old his first start of the season in the Hackett’s Bookmakers-sponsored contest, although there needs to be give in the ground for him to line-up.