Dunguib (30-100 favourite) maintained his unbeaten record over timber in effortless style when winning the Bar One Racing Royal Bond Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse. Philip Fenton’s pride and joy landed last season’s Cheltenham bumper by a wide margin and looks like being every inch as good over timber.
Dunguib is 6/4 from 9/4 for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle with Stan James after another effortless success in the Grade 1 Royal Bond this afternoon. The Novice is also 10s from 16s for the Champion Hurdle given connections appear to be toying with the idea of going for the Big One.
Dunguib Champion Bumper Winner
Runner up Some Present was left unchanged for the Ballymore at 16/1.
Supreme Novices Hurdle 2010 ~ Outright Ante Post, (place terms: 1/4 the first 3)
6-4 Dunguib (from 9/4)
10 Bellvano
12 Rite Of Passage
16 Finians Rainbow
16 Quantitativeeas’
20 Lidar
20 Oscar Whisky
20 Washington Irvine
20 Some Present
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Champion Hurdle 2010 ~ Outright Ante post, (place terms: 1/4 the first 3)
5 Hurricane Fly
5 Binocular
5 Zaynar
5 Solwhit
13-2 Celestial Halo
10 Go Native
10 Dunguib (from 16s)
14 Punjabi
14 Voler La Vedette
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Pandorama’s stablemate, Jered, did not jump as fluently as the winner but plugged on late in the day to finish third. The winner was cut to 12-1 from 16s by William Hill for the RSA Chase, while Victor Chandler cut him to the same price from 20-1. Totesport were more impressed and have him at 8-1 (from 14s) behind 4-1 favourite Punchestowns and 11-2 chance Mikael D’Haguenet, who beat Pandorama over hurdles last season. The runner-up, Alpha Ridge, was introduced by totesport at 20-1.
