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Guinness Handicap Chase (Grade A)
2m 4f
Going: Yielding
Surface: Turf
Draw Advantage: NoneLightly-raced ROYAL RENDEZVOUS might win. ROYAL RENDEZVOUS is smart and while absent since finishing second in July's Galway Plate, this will have been on his radar for some weeks and today's jockey rode a Cheltenham winner for the yard in March. ROYAL RENDEZVOUS bumped into a nicely handicapped winner in Galway and being unexposed, can win from his rating over an ideal trip and surface. Stablemate Livelovelaugh was a good winner of Aintree's Topham recently and while raised just 4lbs from his UK rating, was nonetheless beaten from ratings in the 130s in Ireland this season and was sixth in the aforementioned Galway Plate. Ten Ten is in excellent form but might ideally prefer an ease while Midnight Maestro has found his form this winter but competes from a career high mark, having beaten today's lightly weighted rival Tiger Voice at Limerick. Black Op, runner-up in the 2018 Ballymore Novices Hurdle, was a Grade 1-placed novice chaser and drops down in class from the King George and Gol
Lightly-raced ROYAL RENDEZVOUS might win. ROYAL RENDEZVOUS is smart and while absent since finishing second in July's Galway Plate, this will have been on his radar for some weeks and today's jockey rode a Cheltenham winner for the yard in March. ROYAL RENDEZVOUS bumped into a nicely handicapped winner in Galway and being unexposed, can win from his rating over an ideal trip and surface. Stablemate Livelovelaugh was a good winner of Aintree's Topham recently and while raised just 4lbs from his UK rating, was nonetheless beaten from ratings in the 130s in Ireland this season and was sixth in the aforementioned Galway Plate. Ten Ten is in excellent form but might ideally prefer an ease while Midnight Maestro has found his form this winter but competes from a career high mark, having beaten today's lightly weighted rival Tiger Voice at Limerick. Black Op, runner-up in the 2018 Ballymore Novices Hurdle, was a Grade 1-placed novice chaser and drops down in class from the King George and Gol