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Horse & Jockey Hotel Chase (Grade 2).

Thurles · Sunday, 18 Jan · 19:20 · 2m 4f 66y · Class 1 · TURF

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Status

15:20

Off time

Runners

Yielding (Yielding to Soft in places)

Going

🎯 Tipster's 1·2·3

Sporting Life pick

🏆 Top pick

APPRECIATE IT (IRE

🥈 Second

JAMES DU BERLAIS (FR

🥉 Third

GENTLEMAN DE MEE (FR

Market prediction · 5 runners · sorted by price

01 · 🏆 FAV

Appreciate It

2

1/1

02 · 🥈 2nd

James Du Berlais

3.25

9/4

03 · 🥉 3rd

Hercule Du Seuil

6.50

11/2

04 · —

Gentleman De Mee

12

11/1

05 · —

Monbeg Park

13

12/1

Sporting Life forecast prices — published the night before the race. Top 3 highlighted as market favourites.

Pos	No.	Dr	Horse	Jockey	Trainer	Age	Wgt	Best decimal odds
1st	1	—	Appreciate It (G) FAV [T] Very smart chaser who won this race last year. 10/3, creditable 4¾ lengths second of 6 in listed chase at this course (22f, good to soft) on return 52 days ago. Bold bid expected.	Paul Townend	W P Mullins	12	73.5 kg	2 1/1
5th	2	—	Hercule Du Seuil (G) [HT] Smart chaser. 1 win from 3 runs this season. 33/1, shaped as if out of sorts when pulled up in Paddy's Rewards Club Chase at Leopardstown (17f, good) 22 days ago.	Simon Torrens	W P Mullins	9	72.6 kg	6.50 11/2
3rd	3	—	Gentleman De Mee (G) [T] Smart chaser. Course winner. Winner of the Topham at Aintree last season and that's likely the target again judged on both his efforts this term.	Mark Walsh	W P Mullins	10	71.2 kg	12 11/1
2nd	4	—	James Du Berlais (G) [T] Produced a career best to land a 2½m handicap at the Punchestown Festival in April before out of his depth in Grade 1 there on return. Fared a lot better at Ascot since and not taken lightly.	Danny Mullins	W P Mullins	10	71.2 kg	3.25 9/4
4th	5	—	Monbeg Park (G) [BT] Smart chaser. Blinkered for 1st time, respectable fourteenth of 28 in handicap chase (28/1) at Leopardstown (24.4f, good) 22 days ago, trip too far. Bit to find in this company.	Jordan Gainford	Jack Foley	9	71.2 kg	13 12/1

Betting forecast: Appreciate It (1/1), James Du Berlais (9/4), Hercule Du Seuil (11/2), Gentleman De Mee (11/1), Monbeg Park (12/1)