26 Leopardstown Wincanton Tips

Boxing day horse racing tips: Leopardstown and Wincanton

It’s not simply Kempton that levels high quality fare on Boxing Day. Our racing tipsters have picked out some attention-grabbing wagers elsewhere within the UK and Ireland

Get prepared for the frenzy. No, not the Christmas shopping, that is been and gone. Boxing Day is the busiest and most eagerly awaited racing day of the yr.

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We’ve also obtained three ideas from throughout the nine remaining conferences scheduled across Britain and Ireland including a very thrilling chaser for Joseph O’Brien at Leopardstown.

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Leopardstown 2.20 tip: Fakir to star for O’Brien

What a race is in prospect at Leopardstown in the Grade 1 Racing Post Novice Chase (2.20) the place Fakir D’Oudairies makes an attempt to offer Joseph O’Brien a second successive win following final year’s triumph by Le Richebourg.

The JP McManus silks will again be on show and it’s no easy task for Fakir D’Oudairies with Laurina, Notebook and Royal Rendezvous providing genuine threats.

The Willie Mullins-trained Laurina is a Cheltenham Festival-winning hurdler and he or she was spectacular in her first start over fences last month, readily dispatching Minella Indo. Her stablemate Royal Rendezvous scored on his chasing bow at Thurles final month.

Notebook already has an official ranking of one hundred fifty after two chase wins at Punchestown and represents Henry de Bromhead and Rachel Blackmore.

But the one they all should fear in Fakir D’Oudairies, the winner of the Drinmore Novices Chase at Fairyhouse, within the hands of Mark Walsh.

Like Laurina, he drops from 2m 4f final time when he was seemingly ready to get in a warfare with Samcro before he departed on the second last. Fakir D’Oudairies had dual Champion Hurdle second Melon behind over this journey on chasing bow at Navan last month however.

The method he jumped at Fairyhouse was most impressive and he will heap stress on his rivals come Boxing Day. The drop in trip ought to swimsuit and he can confirm his Arkle credentials with victory in a powerful race.

Wincanton 1.25 tip: Maxwell cost continues to shine

Owner-rider David Maxwell appears to have a very promising five-year-old on his palms within the form of Jatiluwih, who places a five-race unbeaten report over hurdles in Britain on the line in the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle (Wincanton 1.25).

The French import had already garnered plenty of experience over fences earlier than being snapped up by Maxwell, who has an more and more robust portfolio of horses.

Since being sent to Philip Hobbs’ base in Minehead, Jatiluwih has progressed very properly over hurdles and made a profitable begin at Ludlow in March.

After a summer break, he received at Sedgefield and Wetherby in October earlier than delivering his private best when making a profitable begin in handicaps over 2m 5f at Cheltenham’s November meeting. That bodes properly for his Wincanton assignment on Boxing Day, with a testing surface predicted. He’ll have to concede weight to his eight rivals but Maxwell takes off a helpful 3lb and they’re fancied to hold up their unbeaten partnership.

Leopardstown 1.10 tip: Wolf can scare fancied rivals

No doubting the likes of Aramax, A Wave of the Sea and Aspire Tower are going to prove in style within the Grade 2 Knight Frank Juvenile Hurdle (Leopardstown 1.10) however do not underestimate Wolf Prince at forecast double-figure odds.

Wolf Prince joined Gavin Cromwell from Amy Murphy within the autumn and after a delicate enough introduction to hurdling when third behind Aspire Tower, when he wasn’t exhausting ridden, he improved nicely to win a two-mile maiden in heavy going at Fairyhouse this month.

Jonathan Moore was on board for the primary time that afternoon they usually had 14 lengths to spare on the sphere despite not jumping the final two flights in perfect fashion.

It’s doubtless Cromwell will have labored on the horse’s hurdling method and this son of Pour Moi can get in the shake-up. He has plenty of scope for further enchancment within the arms of his wonderful trainer.