Racing

If Not For You to strike in Killarney McSweeney chase

Seventh Sign could take advantage of weight concession from Warne

JP McManus’s If Not For You tackles his longest racecourse test yet at a track over which he won a bumper. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
JP McManus’s If Not For You tackles his longest racecourse test yet at a track over which he won a bumper. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Brian O'Connor
Mon May 11 2015 - 09:38

Killarney's €40,000 feature provides If Not For You with a new stamina test that could give the JP McManus-owned horse a decisive edge.

If Not For You is one of 13 in the McSweeney Killarney national chase and the former point-to-point winner tackles his longest racecourse test yet at a track over which he won a bumper.

His jumping let him down at Tipperary last time but he should strip sharper for that and ground conditions should not be a problem.

Meanwhile, a lot of Seventh Sign's form is on good ground but he has also done well on soft and Finny Maguire's mount gets a significant weight concession from Warne in the hunters chase.

Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor is the racing correspondent of The Irish Times. He also writes the Tipping Point column