Listowel tips: €50k top prize for winner of Friday feature

Action from the Listowel Printing Works Handicap at Listowel. Picture: Healy Racing

The Ladbrokes Handicap Hurdle, with a winner’s prize of almost €50,000, is the feature at Listowel today and Bua Boy looks an each-way bet in a deeply competitive race. Third in the race last year, Denis Hogan’s horse raced just once during the winter, and made his comeback recently at the Galway festival, in which he finished a close second behind Arcadian Sunrise, the pair clear of next-time-out winner The Little Yank, in third.

While he is 6lbs higher than he was in this race last year, today’s quicker conditions more than help to offset that and with improvement likely from his recent return, the six-year-old looks sure to make a bold bid.