THIS afternoon's 'Super Sunday' fixture at Tipperary features an attractive mixed card of eight races, the most valuable of which is the Grade 2 Killerk Construction Tipperary Hurdle. The two-mile contest has attracted a small, but select field and the one that appeals is Definate Spectacle.
Paul Carberry's mount easily accounted for Empaat at Cork and should have the measure of Daramas. The Michael Hourigan-trained Field Commander has won his last four starts in style and is expected to have little difficulty extending that sequence in the Ballykisteen Hotel Joe Mac Novice Hurdle. Christy Roche's representative Cool Running was sent off a warm favourite at Clonmel, only to be beaten by Whataboutya.
He can rectify that in the Grade 3 O'Dwyer Steel Like-AButterfly Novice Chase.
The Group 3 Coolmore Stud Home Of Champions Concorde Stakes looks to be competitive, with both Hard Rock City and Eastern Appeal sure to be involved at the end. Eastern Appeal gets the vote.
Hard Rock City's jockey Seamus Heffernan has a good chance of collecting for his boss Aidan O'Brien aboard King Of Rome, the trainer's selection in the High Chaparral 2-Y-O Maiden.
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