DERRINROSS CAN UPSTAGE BIG BOYS

Hayley Moore PRESENTER FOR SKY SPORTS RACING

SOME high-profile stables are represented in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle but the fact DERRINROSS is trained by the lesser-known Philip Dempsey and ridden by his son Luke might mean he gets a little overlooked. That would be a mistake.

This season he has won two graded hurdles, in the first of them comfortably brushing aside Sams Profile, who was a decent fifth in Wednesday’s Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle.

Favourite Birchdale has looked good but the horse is s inexperienced and worth h taking on.

Trainer Joseph O’Brien has s a strong grip on the juvenile e hurdle division. He can land d the JCB Triumph Hurdle with h

SIR EREC and I wouldn’t be surprised if stablemate Gardens of Babylon is the biggest danger.

I am excited about the chances of my father’s NOT

ANOTHER MUDDLE in the Grand Annual Handicap Chase. He is improving and the strong gallop will suit suit.

DALLAS DES PICTONS, who has only been beaten in his last three runs by Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle winner City Island, can land the concluding Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys Handicap Hurdle, a race trainer Gordon Elliott always targets.