{"id":11273,"date":"2024-12-24T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bettingsitesreviewed.co.uk\/?p=11273"},"modified":"2024-12-24T14:17:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T14:17:57","slug":"leopardstown-races-preview-27-december-christmas-festival-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettingsitesreviewed.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/24\/leopardstown-races-preview-27-december-christmas-festival-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopardstown Races Preview for 27 December – Christmas Festival Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leopardstown<\/p>\n

The Leopardstown races on day two of the Dublin track’s Christmas Festival on Friday, 27 December kick things up a notch. This card contains two Grade 1 contests with the the Future Champions Novice Hurdle and Paddy’s Rewards Club Chase.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Away from the top level action at Leopardstown, the Paddy Power Chase is the big betting race and staying handicap of the meeting. It has been an informative guide for the Cheltenham Festival and Grand National in recent years.<\/p>\n

With selective watering on the chase course to maintain good to yielding ground, the going looks as though it shall be faster than usual for this point in the season. That’s something both traders on horse racing betting sites<\/a> and our experts bear in mind when pricing up events and giving their analysis of the card.<\/p>\n

Leopardstown Races Preview for 27 December<\/h2>\n

12:05 – 2m 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle<\/h3>\n

\"JPMany Flat converts in the line-up, so here are two to note against the field. French AQPS bumper winner\u00a0LAST KINGDOM <\/strong>has joined Willie Mullins after being purchased by JP McManus. Now that he’s with such powerful connections, he could be one to follow in the juvenile hurdling division in Ireland.<\/p>\n

If Last Kingdom doesn’t score on his Irish and jumping debut, then\u00a0Galileo Dame\u00a0<\/strong>is a classy filly off the Flat for Joseph O’Brien. Fourth in the Cheshire Oaks in the spring, she picked up black type for two Listed seconds in the autumn including behind beloved William Haggas veteran Hamish.<\/p>\n

Those with actual hurdling experience don’t exactly set a high bar, so the Mullins and O’Brien yards who have both won this event multiple times in recent years definitely look like the stables to concentrate on.<\/p>\n

12:35 – 2m 1f Beginners Chase<\/h3>\n