A Grade 2 mares' chase at Cork won by six Cheltenham Festival winners since 2014 - punting pointers for Sunday's racing

Punting pointers from some of today's race meetings . . .

Cork: Grade 2 to note

Cork's Grade 2 mares' novice chase (1.40) has become a good pointer for Cheltenham Festival winners in recent years as since 2017 Shattered Love, Mount Ida and Impervious have all scored at jump racing's biggest four days after victory in this race earlier in the season.

Vroum Vroum Mag, Elimay and Concertista are other Cheltenham Festival winners to have this race on their CV and there is proven Grade 1 form in the line-up courtesy of Zenta, who won the Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle at last year's Grand National meeting. 

Willie Mullins, who trains Zenta, has won this 2m½f contest five times in the last nine runnings, but his last success came with Concertista in 2021. He noted Paul Townend's mount as a mare who "might be able to make a name for herself over fences" in his Racing Post stable tour and her owner JP McManus is also represented by Henry de Bromhead's Gowran Park winner Nara.

Zenta13:40 Cork

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Jky: Paul Townend Tnr: W P Mullins

Cork stat

Thirteen of Jonathan Sweeney's 21 runners at Cork have finished inside the top four and Churchroad Prince is the trainer's first representative at the track this season in the Grade 3 novice hurdle (1.05).

Churchroad Prince13:05 Cork

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Jky: Michael O'Sullivan Tnr: Jonathan Sweeney

Huntingdon: intriguing Listed bumper

Gavin Sheehan won Huntingdon's Listed bumper (3.35) on dual Grade 1 heroine La Bague Au Roi in 2015 and he rides Olly Murphy's newcomer There Runs Mary, a €105,000 purchase, in the same race.

On her chances, Murphy said: "She’s a nice filly but we're throwing her in at the deep end. She’ll be dropped in and hopefully learn something and is a nice prospect for the future."

Highland Haven made a successful debut at Ffos Las last month and represents Fergal O'Brien, who won the most recent running of this race named after fellow trainer Henrietta Knight in 2022 with Lilting Verse.

O'Brien said: "We're really looking forward to running her. She did nothing wrong when winning under a lovely ride from Liam Harrison at Ffos Las and although this is a step up we're expecting another nice run."

However, Kapability is the standout filly on what she has achieved, having beaten subsequent Listed Cheltenham runner-up Siog Geal by two lengths in October.

Huntingdon is inspecting at 8.30am on the day of racing.

Huntingdon stat

Bread And Butter has won both of his starts since wind surgery and bids to complete a hat-trick since that first-time operation in the 2m4½f conditional jockeys' handicap hurdle (12.43).

Bread And Butter12:43 Huntingdon

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Jky: Lewis Saunders (8lb)Tnr: Olly Murphy

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