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My first runner at the Dublin Racing Festival - and we go there full of hope
We have another Grade 1 two-mile chase in our sights this weekend and I hope that Sceau Royal can get in the money.
He will be my first runner at the Dublin Racing Festival, and probably one of very few British horses going over to take on the Irish in their own back yard.
Although he'll have a stiff task taking on Blue Lord in Sunday's Ladbrokes Dublin Chase, I'm full of hope that he'll run well enough to make the trip worthwhile.
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