Three recent hunter chase winners will face off in the final race of the season in that division as a field of 15 runners have been declared for the Beasley Engineering Hunter Chase on Monday afternoon.
The trio is headed by Eyes Off Annie, Ian McCarthy’s mare who will be receiving weight from each of her 14 rivals.
The seven-year-old had won amongst her own sex at Cork on Easter Monday, and followed that up with back-to-back placed efforts, firstly in the Bishopscourt Cup at the Punchestown Festival, and more recently over the extended three-and-a-half-mile trip at Downpatrick.
At the opposite end of the weights, Eleanor Broderick’s Lisleigh Lad goes in search of his third win of the campaign, having won at Fairyhouse and Cork this season.
Alan O’Sullivan, who was aboard the seven-year-old in Cork, switches to Trixie Barry’s Bartlemy Boy, who Shane Cotter going in the opposite direction.
Cotter had guided Bartlemy Boy to a three-quarters length victory at Killarney three weeks ago to bring up a hat-trick.
A number of runners come into the race in good form, with five of the 15 runners boasting a win within their last three starts.
The declarations can be viewed here.
