An Maineach looks best

AS the course continues to dry out it should be perfect jumping ground today at Tralee and this will suit the Galway Plate runner up Bishops Hall in the featured Denny Gold Medal Handicap Chase.

Leading over the third last fence Bishops Hall was collared a furlong out by Life Of A Lord and beaten a length and a half. Second Schedual ran on to finish fourth, 11 lengths adrift of Bishops Hall who should have little difficulty in confirming the placings.

An Maineach has an undeniable chance at the weights. He unseated his rider at the last fence in the Plate but was well beaten at the time. However, he put his pelvis out after leading over the fourth last.

An Maineach subsequently got up in the last stride over an inadequate distance at Roscommon where Charlie Swan had his work cut out to get him back in touch following a slow jump over the fourth last. That race was more in the nature of a confidence booster and today's trip will suit him. Bishops Hall may find it hard to give him 17lb.

The ground should also be ideal for King Wah Glory who attempts to win the Denny Havasnack Race for the second year running. He has 7lb more to carry on this occasion but he won with great ease last year having led a furlong and a half down.

Third in the Galway Plate this versatile seven year old had previously finished a staying third behind the improved Dancing Fred - third in the Grade One Secretariat Stakes at Arlington last Sunday - in a ladies race over a mile and a half at the Curragh last month but will be more effective over this distance.

. Charlie Swan will be out of action for at least two weeks after suffering a fractured right collarbone in a fall at Tralee on Tuesday night. Initially it was feared Swan had broken his collarbone after Young Dub liner fell, but after visiting his doctor in Navan yesterday, the jockey had better news.

"I have a crack in my collarbone and my chest is badly bruised, which is making it twice as sore. I should be back in about two to two and a half weeks."