Downmexicoway should prove tough nut to crack at Gowran Park

In Naas tomorrow, Champ Kiely, who lowered the colours of stable-companion Ballyburn in a Grade 1 at the Punchestown festival on his final start of last season, will face a stiff task under top-weight and over an apparently inadequate trip in the Grade 3 Barberstown Castle Chase.

HANDICAP CHASE DEBUT: Downmexicoway should prove tough to beat in today’s Gowran Park feature, the Noreside Catering Handicap Chase. Picture: HEALY RACING

Making his handicap chase debut, Downmexicoway should prove tough to beat in today’s Gowran Park feature, the Noreside Catering Handicap Chase.

On a day which might provide plenty of joy for the in-form partnership of Henry de Bromhead and Darrragh O’Keeffe, this unexposed six-year-old looks likely to be a better chaser than hurdler — he won once in that sphere.