{"id":11343,"date":"2024-12-27T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bettingsitesreviewed.co.uk\/?p=11343"},"modified":"2024-12-27T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T11:00:08","slug":"leopardstown-racing-preview-28-december-savills-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettingsitesreviewed.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/27\/leopardstown-racing-preview-28-december-savills-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopardstown Racing Preview – Saturday Selections for Savills Chase & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leopardstown<\/p>\n

The Leopardstown racing at the Christmas Festival continues on the penultimate day of the meeting this Saturday, 28 December. Headlining the latest card from this fixture is the Grade 1 Savills Chase featuring a John Durkan rematch between Fact To File and Galopin Des Champs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This particular date is a huge one for jumps horse racing in Ireland in general as it’s also the day of the Grade 1 Faugheen Novice Chase down at Limerick. Supporting races at Leopardstown, meanwhile, include the Savills Hurdle, registered as the Christmas Hurdle.<\/p>\n

With so much top-level action on show this Saturday, horse racing betting sites<\/a> on both sides of the Irish Sea will be busy taking wagers. Step forward our tireless experts, who follow all the happenings in this great sport. Read on for their race by race analysis of all the big races in the Emerald Isle.<\/p>\n

Leopardstown Racing Preview for Saturday, 28 December<\/h2>\n

1:20 – 2m 5f 70y Beginners Chase<\/h3>\n

\"RicciPaul Townend rides\u00a0Quai De Bourbon\u00a0<\/strong>in the Gigginstown House Stud silks, but preference is for another of the three Willie Mullins mounts in\u00a0CHAPEAU DE SOLEIL<\/strong>. He won an Irish Point and ended last season on a high with consecutive springtime wins at roughly this trip over hurdles.<\/p>\n

Chapeau De Soleil could scale greater heights now switched to the larger obstacles and his Gold Trophy victory at the Punchestown Festival got franked in the autumn when Beacon Edge landed the Grade 2 West Yorkshire Hurdle around Wetherby. The other Mullins runner\u00a0Captain Cody\u00a0<\/strong>has experience of fences that his two stable companions lack, meanwhile.<\/p>\n

An Tobar\u00a0<\/strong>finished in front of the selection in the Lawlor’s Of Naas in January and also has an Irish Point under his belt. He’s not without claims for Robcour, Henry De Bromhead and Rachael Blackmore. Navan faller\u00a0Dee Capo\u00a0<\/strong>could be dangerous if proving no worse for his tumble two out earlier this month.<\/p>\n

2:00 – 2m 7f 80y Grade 1 Savills Hurdle (Registered as the Christmas Hurdle)<\/h3>\n