Drying ground set to scupper Notre bid
Jim Dreaper has all but ruled top-weight Notre Pere out of Monday’s Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse.
Winner of the Welsh National at Chepstow earlier in the season, he arguably produced a career-best in the Irish Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup when beaten only five lengths by Neptune Collonges.
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