Bizet all set to do the business

LIMERICK/Preview: The handicapper has given a significant tip at Limerick this afternoon where Bizet looks set to whistle up a winning tune.

Tony Martin's runner goes in the two-and-three-quarter mile handicap hurdle and anyone who saw Bizet win at Thurles last Sunday will be almost willing to take any price available.

He trotted up by three and a half lengths from Star Accord and was heavily backed to do so.

For that Bizet has a 4lb hike which wouldn't look much to stop him following up anyway. But especially so since the handicapper has upped him 14lbs in future races.

An improving horse at the right end of the handicap and officially 10lbs well in is a cocktail that will have the bookies quaking.

Besides Bizet it should be interesting to see if Princess Symphony can confirm Fairyhouse form with Supreme Touch in the mares beginners chase.

The latter has over 27 lengths to make up on that run behind Be My Belle which looks too much.

Bizet's stable companion Soundz Of Muzic looks capable of following in his footsteps into the winners' enclosure after the two-mile handicap hurdle.

Third to Bentota Beach at Punchestown, Soundz Of Muzic looks a more likely solution to the contest than Anglosprinter.

The ex-hunter, Tenshookmen, a winner at Thurles and Punchestown, missed out at Cheltenham subsequently but topweight of 12st may not stop him getting back on the winning trail in the handicap chase.

Colonel Monroe ran a blinder on his last start when third to Satco Express.

The O'Grady runner was right up on the winner's heels at the last fence and a repeat of that will see him ahead in the conditions hurdle.

The worry is the uncertainty over the health of some of the stable in the last couple of weeks.