Among the favourites, Langer Dan will be popular as his close second behind Galopin Des Champs 12 months ago has been franked in no uncertain terms by the winner’s subsequent exploits. He was priced up at 33-1 yesterday afternoon and has since been backed down to 16-1, which is encouraging but also makes me feel like the boat may have been missed. The one that caught my eye yesterday in the search for a likely outsider was Noel Meade’s Hes A Hardy Bloke, who ran an eyecatching race at the Dublin Racing Festival and is trying this trip for the first time. That’s what you get for chasing your losses – something that no responsible journalist could ever advocate – but it’s 362 days until our next chance to back a winner at the Festival and so a small each-way interest on something at a big price is probably in order. What now seems firmly established as the Festival’s “getting out” race has most seen the punters digging themselves an even deeper hole in recent years, with no winning favourite since Sir Des Champs, who turned out to be a multiple Grade One winner over fences, back in 2011. 5.30pm Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle preview
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