THE two miles and six and a half-furlong beginners’ chase at Galway’s October bank holiday meeting, the WB Gavin & Co Irish EBF Beginners Chase, is always a race that is well worth watching.

This is a race that has been won in the past by such luminaries as China Rock, Last Instalment, Jessies Dream, Lyreen Legend and, in 2013, by Don Cossack, and Carlingford Lough was third behind Lyreen Legend in 2012.