Party Time Hurdle

Off time: 14:02 | Winning time: 5m 55.30s

Noble Yeats^t1²²⁰

Age: 8| Weight: 11-10| J: Donagh Meyler| T: E Mullins

10/11

Top-class chaser. 84/10, below form 15¼ lengths seventh of 18 to Rosario Baron in Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris at Auteuil (29.8f, soft). Off 7 months. Switches from chase to hurdles.

Form: 11344-7

Sa Majeste²⁴³

Age: 5| Weight: 11-10| J: Simon Torrens| T: W P Mullins| BF

11/2

Useful hurdler. 13/8, first run since leaving Y. Fouin when sixth of 9 in novice hurdle at Punchestown (16f, good to soft) on IRE NH debut, finding nothing. Off 8 months. Open to improvement.

Form: 3/16-

No Time To Wait¹⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 11-7| J: Sam Ewing| T: G Elliott

11/8

Promising sort. 1 win from 2 runs this season. 3/1, career best when winning 24-runner novice hurdle at Cork (16.8f, heavy) 17 days ago, comfortably. Stable in good form. Sure to go well.

Form: 3187-31

Just Three^h1⁴⁵

Age: 6| Weight: 11-1| J: J G Gilligan⁽⁷⁾| T: P J Gilligan| OR: 105

40/1

Lightly-raced maiden. 100/1, below form ninth of 22 in novice hurdle at Naas (16f, soft) 45 days ago. Back up in trip. Hood on 1st time.

Form: 2459

Non-Runners

Action Motion¹⁵

Weight: 11-10| Age: 4

T: D Hogan J: Daniel King

Forecasts

Noble Yeats (10/11), No Time To Wait (11/8), Sa Majeste (11/2), Action Motion (25/1), Just Three (40/1)

This trip is on the short side for NOBLE YEATS, whose campaign will almost certainly be geared up around a third successive appearance in the Grand National at Aintree in April, a race that he won in 2022 and was a fine fourth last season. Still, he was an easy winner of his sole previous start in this sphere and could prove too strong for promising novice No Time To Wait and Sa Majeste, who failed to fire on debut for this yard but remains of interest in view of what he showed in France.