Listowel tips: Galway Plate runner-up Darasso can go one better in Kerry National
LEADING CONTENDER: Darasso won at Listowel last year and can make a successful return to the Kingdom by winning the Kerry National. Picture: Healy Racing
With Darasso, Busselton, Fire Attack, Early Doors, Embittered, and A Wave Of The Sea, trainer Joseph O’Brien has a particularly strong challenge in his bid for back-to-back wins in the Guinness Kerry National and he can achieve that with the first-named.
While the selection is unproven over this trip, there was a lot to like about the way he stayed on up the straight to finish a close second behind Hewick, who re-opposes, in the Galway Plate. He is still quite lightly raced over fences, with just nine races, four of which he won, and he has course form having won the John J Galvin Chase here in June 2021. Versatile about ground, this neat jumper can gain compensation for his near miss in Ballybrit.
