William Hill Committed To Top Prices Hurdle

Off time: 15:20 | Winning time: 4m 25.60s

Eagle Fang¹⁶⁵

Age: 4| Weight: 11-11| J: O R Brown⁽⁵⁾| T: W Durkan| OR: 130| C

17/2

Useful hurdler. 22/1, career best when winning 14-runner novice hurdle at this course (16.2f, heavy) 165 days ago. This is more demanding.

Form: 230101-

Aspire Tower²²⁵

Age: 8| Weight: 11-2| J: Darragh O'Keeffe| T: H De Bromhead| OR: 159| BF| C

11/4

Smart chaser. Course winner. 4/7, running respectably when falling at the last in a novice chase at Leopardstown (17f, heavy) on latest start in March. Looks the one most likely to make a race of it with Pied Piper.

Form: 8/3342F-

Byker^p¹⁵⁴

Age: 5| Weight: 11-2| J: Philip Byrnes| T: C Byrnes| OR: 127

28/1

6/1, last of 12 in handicap at Killarney (16.8f, soft). Switches from Flat to hurdles. Useful performer in this sphere but will do well to match strides with Pied Piper and Aspire Tower.

Form: 2/55025-

Pied Piper^t⁷⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-2| J: Jack Kennedy| T: G Elliott| OR: 155| C

4/9

Very smart hurdler. Course winner. Fifth of 7 in minor event at Galway (14.1f, soft, 5/4) 74 days ago, finding little. Switches from Flat to hurdles. Fine third in the County Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on latest start in this sphere.

Form: 5426/43-

Forecasts

Pied Piper (4/9), Aspire Tower (11/4), Eagle Fang (17/2), Byker (28/1)

Though below par on the Flat the last twice, PIED PIPER put in a solid shift when third in a major Cheltenham Festival handicap on his latest hurdles start and he'll be very hard to beat if able to reproduce form akin to that here. Aspire Tower is clear second choice ahead of Byker.