Annie Power favourite for Mares' Champion Hurdle
THE highlight of today’s eight-race card is the Mares’ Champion Hurdle in which ANNIE POWER (3.45) is 1-6 favourite.
Not a race to have a bet in but one to watch as the top NH mare in training goes about her business.
The juvenile hurdle (4.20) has attracted a top quality field. Willie Mullins runs Abbyssial and Adriana Des Mottes. Dessie Hughes runs Guitar Pete and Gordon Elliott saddles Tiger Roll.
The UK-trained horses running today are: 3.05 Storm Survivor; 3.45 Cockney Sparrow; 4.20 Fox Norton, Kentucky Hyden, Pearl Castle, Royal Irish Hussar; 4.55 Brass Tax, Chartreux; 5.30 Un Temps Pour Tout, Deep Trouble, Regal Encore.
Jezki led from start to finish in yesterday’s Champion Hurdle. Hurricane Run never threatened to go past. It looks very much as if the years have caught up with him.
Vautour made all the running to win his Grade One race.