1.00 Lisburn And Castlereagh City Council 3-Y-O Hurdle 2m 1f

Contador looked a capable performer on the flat in France for Juddmonte and Francis Graffard, and he’s bound to have learned plenty from what he showed on his Punchestown hurdling bow for Gordon Elliott. He appeared to get a touch of stagefright and was knocked out of his rhythm early when showing some inexperience. He clearly has some improving to do from there. However, he’ll surely be well schooled coming here, he’s physically scopey enough to do this job and his stable has won six of the last 10 renewals of this, so perhaps connections would have been working back from this as a target.