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Champion Hurdle preview 2019 festival Andrew Nelis

 Champion Hurdle hotting up as Andrew Nelis predicts


Beveur Dair current champion Dual winner  heads to the festival  , knowing now two of Ireland’s finest mares in Laurina and Apples  have their sights set firmly on the current champion come  March . 
Bevuir dair is rightly a true champion , having won the last  2 renewals , but the manner of which Apples jade destroying her rivals in the Irish champion Hurdle at the  weekend at leopardstown , has now left a real tasty match for all racing fans come day one of the festival .
Initially after the win , in the Irish champion Hurdle , Elliot tweeted that she is going mares .But next day , Gordon Elliot Apples jades trainer , who had a talk with owner michael O Leary , said it would be mad not to give her  her chance. Now in the champion on the Tuesday . It’s like this IMO melon who she taken apart with such ease , given melon is a 170 rated horse , and came within a a whisker of the current champion last year , suggests very clear , that Apples jade rated 174 , with a mares allowance of 7lb , this would have her off a mark of 182 , bevuir currently standing at. 180 RPR . Not getting carried away but a 7yr old Apples jade still improving and surely the best to come , would she take BD ... she will go very close that’s all I am going to say , then throw in Willie Mullins other super mare. Laurina ... another progressive and handy sort , who will also be in the mix , followed by my dark horse. Sharjah which I recommend backing EW at current odds of 8/1 . What a champion we have in store in day one of the festival.     Andrew Nelis Racing News . 

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