A Plus Tard set for Leopardstown repeat A strong field of eight runners is set to line up for today’s €175,000 Grade 1 Savills Chase at Leopardstown on the third day of the Christmas Festival. Last year’s winner A Plus Tard is the red-hot favourite at odds of 8/11 with BoyleSports following his recent demolition job in the Betfair Chase at Haydock. A Plus Tard routed a good field by 22 lengths in last month’s Haydock contest and many anticipate a similar outcome to today’s Christmas highlight. Rachael Blackmore is again in the saddle on last season’s Gold Cup runner-up but it’s safe to say the pair won’t have things as easy this time as the opposition includes two other previous winners of this contest and the pair of horses that filled the places behind the seven-year-old last year. A Plus Tard beat Kemboy and Melon by half a length and one and a half lengths in the Savills Chase twelve months ago and on their day that pair are more than capable performers. Kemboy, an 8/1 chance with BoyleSports, landed this race in 2018 while Melon (16/1 BoyleSports) showed he is no back number when finishing third to Allaho in the John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown earlier in the month. Other threats to A Plus Tard include course specialist and 2019 winner of this race Delta Work, 7/1 BoyleSports, and Cheltenham’s National Hunt Challenge Cup winner Galvin, 11/2 BoyleSports. Galvin, the mount of Davy Russell, is relatively unexposed and looks set for another profitable season following his gallant second to Frodon in the Grade 1 Ladbrokes Champion Chase at Down Royal. The remainder of the runners, Janidil, Franco De Port and the enigmatic Samcro are not out of this either in what promises to be a fascinating renewal. The Dornan Engineering Christmas Hurdle which takes place earlier on the Leopardstown card is another exciting contest that has attracted a strong field of eleven. BoyleSports can’t split Flooring Porter and Klassical Dream at the head of the market at odds of 9/4 while others sure to have their supporters are Abacadabras, 7/1 BoyleSports, Ronald Pump (8/1) and Sire Du Berlais (6/1). The Gavin Cromwell-trained Flooring Porter, a seven lengths winner of this race last year, will again be the mount of Sunday’s King George VI Chase winning jockey Danny Mullins. The pair will be hoping to make amends for their penultimate flight fall in last month’s Lismullen at Navan. Former Supreme Novices Hurdle winner Klassical Dream hasn’t run since his impressive victory in the Champion Stayers hurdle at the Punchestown Festival in April but the first time hood that was employed that day is retained here and other bold showing is expected. New Customers of BoyleSports can avail of their enhanced Welcome Offer - Bet €10 Get €50 + Money Back as a free bet on All Losers 1.10pm Leopardstown. 18+. IRE & UK mobile customers & in-shop BoyleXtra cardholders. Max Free Bet refund €10 on losing selections. Applies to first bet on race from 2pm on Monday 27th December on win single & win part of each way single on the outright market. Applies to selected races as advertised on mobile. Antepost/combined odds/Free/void/cashed out bets won’t qualify. Free Bets will expire after 7 days. T&Cs Apply. Begambleaware
