ML Lynch Civil Engineering Novice Chase

Off time: 17:04 | Winning time: 5m 45.40s

Salvador Ziggy⁸

Age: 7| Weight: 11-10| J: Jack Kennedy| T: G Elliott

1/1

Promising individual. Four wins from 7 runs last season. Career best when winning 7-runner minor event chase at Tramore (21.6f, heavy, 4/7) 8 days ago, forging clear. Looks a potenitally useful recruit to this sphere.

Form: 142P-11

Toss Again^t²²

Age: 6| Weight: 11-10| J: Darragh O'Keeffe| T: H De Bromhead| OR: 140| CD

4/5

Useful chaser. Two wins from 6 runs last season. Career best when winning 17-runner handicap chase at Galway (22.5f, good, 11/2) 22 days ago, driven out. Further progress likely and he's a major player.

Form: 0217-11

Non-Runners

Solness²³

Weight: 11-10| Age: 5

T: J P O'Brien J: J J Slevin

Sphagnum²⁰

Weight: 11-6| Age: 6

T: J P Broderick J: Dillon Maxwell

My Design¹

Weight: 10-13| Age: 8

T: D Queally J: Kieren Buckley

Forecasts

Toss Again (4/5), Salvador Ziggy (1/1), Solness (5/1), My Design (12/1), Sphagnum (25/1)

TOSS AGAIN and Salvador Ziggy are both 2-2 over fences and will likely hold their own in graded company in due course. The latter was again impressive at Tramore recently and is not passed over lightly, but Toss Again belied his inexperience in this sphere when landing a valuable, big-field handicap chase at the Galway Festival and is marginally preferred. This is by no means a straight duel, though, with Solness also entitled to respect on the back of a creditable effort in a Grade 3 novice.