TELLY VERDICTS

Best bets for today’s TV action from our experts

FACILE VEGA (1.30) can keep the Willie Mullins machine motoring in the Turners Novices’ Chase.

Up until last year’s Dublin Racing Festival, this horse was seen by many as the Second Coming but the wheels came off with a shock defeat there.

He blotted his copybook again when beaten at

1-2 on his second chase start this term but is still the class act here. None of his serious rivals have won a Grade One – he’s won three.

And he finally gets a longer trip. That could be the making of him as he’s been travelling strongly over 2m but not picking up at the business end. EMITOM (2.10) isn’t the same horse as the one who ran fourth in the 2020 Stayers’ but he is enjoying a new lease of life. After three winless years, he has notched two victories and two seconds since switching to Alan King

(left). He’s a sporting bet at 25-1 in the Pertemps Network Final off 137, having been in the mid-150s in his pomp.

ENVOI ALLEN (2.50) fancied to follow up last year’s impressive win in the Ryanair Chase. The three-time Cheltenham Festival winner looked as good as ever when just outstayed over three miles by Gerri Colombe last time and goes well fresh.

TEAHUPOO (3.30) has a great chance to avenge his unlucky close third in last year’s Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle.

He was switched twice during a messy route up the hill before being beaten less than a length.

Gordon Elliott believes the seven-year-old is a better horse this year.

THEATRE MAN (4.10) has been a Festival buzz horse and it’s easy to see why. He’s an unexposed novice who chased home Turners fancy Ginny’s Destiny in a hot handicap on Trials Day and runs in the TrustATrader Plate off a generous 137.