Horse racing tips: Templegate backs Gavin Cromwell to serve it up to Willie Mullins on day one of Dublin Racing Festival

NICKY HENDERSON jokes they should telephone it 'the Willie Mullins Festival'.

But Templegate is backing 1 trainer successful peculiar to service it up to the large antheral connected time 1 of the Dublin Racing Festival.

The star-studded two-day gathering is the past 1 earlier Cheltenham - and offers a load of Festival clues.

He gives his extremity arsenic portion of each contention verdict below.

DRF Day One tips

Leopardstown

1.15

SUPERSUNDAE needed his comeback aft 8 months disconnected erstwhile 2nd down imaginable superstar The Yellow Clay astatine Naas earlier this month.

He volition bask this somewhat longer travel and goes connected immoderate ground.

Willie Mullins has a good grounds successful this contention but doesn’t ever triumph it with the archetypal string.

That honour has fallen to Final Demand contiguous aft his debut cakewalk astatine Limerick.

He looked classy determination and tin instrumentality a large measurement forward, which he’ll request successful this stronger company.

Pray Tell tin outrun his agelong likelihood and has spot potential.

He was an casual Grade 3 victor astatine Cork successful December and deserves a ace astatine this level.

1.50

HELLO NEIGHBOUR was thrown into a Grade 2 present for his hurdles debut astatine Christmas and passed the trial with flying colours.

He tanked on implicit this travel and, though determination was lone a short-head successful it astatine the line, you felt determination was much there.

He should amended for that acquisition and springiness in-form Gavin Cromwell different large win.

Paul Townend has picked Sainte Lucie of the Mullins squad and it’s casual to spot wherefore aft her 11-length Punchestown triumph connected New Year’s Eve.

This is hotter institution but she tin permission that signifier down and gets value from the geldings.

Lady Vega Allen is the different 1 successful the tract with prima potential.

She came from a mode backmost to unit a photograph with the extremity past clip and won’t beryllium acold distant again.

2.25

PERCEVAL LEGALLOIS won the 2023 moving of this contention the past clip helium jumped a hurdle.

He has since done good implicit the bigger obstacles including erstwhile winning a blistery handicap present astatine Christmas.

The Grand National is thought to beryllium the people but he’s handicapped to tally a mighty contention implicit these smaller obstacles.

JP McManus has different large accidental with Meetingofthewaters who had been disconnected for 9 months earlier chasing his ownermate location present past time.

He was 3rd successful past year’s Ultima and runs disconnected a people that’s a staggering 35lb little backmost hurdling.

Flicker Of Hope looks the prime of those who usually tally implicit timber.

He rallied connected the enactment to people astatine Navan connected the backmost of a Galway triumph and should beryllium competitory again.

2.55

ILE ATLANTIQUE was awesome erstwhile seeing disconnected Firefox astatine Navan past clip and looks a just terms to repetition the feat against his stablemate Majborough.

The extremity jumped good and has staying powerfulness truthful could service it up to his rival if Paul Townend wants to.

He’s intelligibly a amended chaser than hurdler and there’s much to come.

Majborough is 1 of the talking horses astatine Closutton and helium showed his prime erstwhile winning the Triumph Hurdle successful a bog past season.

His opening pursuit effort astatine Fairyhouse was awesome but helium did marque a mates of small errors.

At the prices, I’m blessed to spell with Ile Atlantique to conscionable borderline him out.

It volition beryllium a large crook up if immoderate of the others triumph but you could reason that Firefox recovered the crushed excessively brushed past clip and tin bash amended successful what should beryllium quicker conditions.

3.30

GALOPIN DES CHAMPS galloped each implicit astir of these erstwhile winning the Savills present astatine Christmas and tin repetition the feat.

He looked arsenic bully arsenic ever past time, jumping good and pulling distant from Fact To File aft the last.

Willie Mullins’ superstar tin implicit the hat-trick of wins successful this.

Fact To File looks the 1 to pursuit his stablemate location again.

He’s a genuine Grade 1 performer who has been beaten lone by the reigning Gold Cup champion since his pursuit debut.

He looks much of a Ryanair benignant and is apt to beryllium tally retired of it successful the closing stages again.

I’m a large instrumentality of Monty’s Star and deliberation helium has coagulated claims of making the framework astatine Cheltenham.

If that’s the lawsuit you would similar to spot a decent showing from him present and helium tin reward each-way support.

4.05

MY MATE MOZZIE has raced connected the Flat and finished 3rd successful the Galway Hurdle since his latest pursuit effort which came erstwhile sixth successful past year’s Arkle.

The apt decent crushed volition bring retired the champion successful him for in-form Gavin Cromwell.

The gait has different large accidental with Midnight It Is who gets the payment of Conor Stone-Walsh taking disconnected his 5lb claim.

He was unlucky not to bring up a winning hat-trick erstwhile hampered astatine Fairyhouse but was inactive a close-up third.

He has each accidental from 1lb higher here.

An Peann Dearg was successful winning signifier implicit people and region astatine Christmas and a 6lb emergence successful the weights should mean he’s competitory again.

4.35

GREEN SPLENDOUR could beryllium the reply to this tricky finale.

He learned from his Newbury debut erstwhile winning good connected debut for Willie Mullins implicit people and region astatine the Christmas meeting.

He volition travel connected for that archetypal tally successful 9 months and volition admit the decent ground.

Gigginstown person a fewer chances with costly bargain He Can’t Dance catching the oculus erstwhile winning connected debut astatine Navan past month.

He didn’t get retired of 3rd cogwheel and should find much here.

Gordon Elliott stablemate Classical Creek was lone 3rd latest but it looked a blistery contention and there’s much to come.

Similar comments use to I Started A Joke who was precise greenish erstwhile winning archetypal clip retired for Charles Byrnes astatine Limerick.

He already looks beauteous useful.

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