Bid For Chester comes good to book place in Sales race

Bid For Chester justified good support in decisive fashion when successful on his fifth start in the Navan Racecourse Nursery Handicap.

The son of Ribchester, available at 13/2 overnight and backed throughout the morning to go off a 7/2 chance, showed pace on his handicap debut at the Curragh last weekend and appreciated this drop in trip.

The Mick Mulvany-trained colt was ridden to assert inside the final furlong by Gary Carroll and drew right away to beat Glamorously by three and a half lengths. Veracidad was a further three-quarters of a length back in third.

Mulvany said, "He fired a warning shot the other day and Chris (Hayes) came in and said he was a bit green when he went for him. When he came through them today the hill suited him.

"Hopefully now he'll go to the sales race, the Goffs Sportman's Challenge in Naas on September 14th. That was the plan all year.”

Quotes by Gary Carson