Neptune Investment Novices Hurdle

None of the market leaders strutted their stuff over the last week but an interesting contender here could be Fionnegas who chased home Dunguib on Sunday and would have run out an impressive 11 lengths’ winner without the season’s star novice in the race so he is a serious contender for whichever novice event they head for between this contest and the Albert Bartlett Hurdle as Willie Mullins seems to have already conceded it is a futile exercise taking on Dunguib again.

The stable have a number of staying novices to juggle around notably Quel Esprit and Enterprise Park so it remains guesswork.

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I would rate Finian’s Rainbow as the best of the Brits at this stage ahead of his stablemate Quantativeeasing although he is the bigger-priced as he shaped like the best horse in the Challow Hurdle to me before heavy ground brought Reve De Sivola’s greater stamina into play but, again, we can not be sure about his Festival target.