Wexford Racecourse: preview and tips for Wednesday’s seven-race summer jumps card

Wexford Racecourse hosts two meetings on consecutive days this week, with the first of them arriving on Wednesday with a bumper seven-race card on offer for punters heading to the track…

Racing gets underway at 2:28pm with a mares beginners chase over the two-mile trip before the card comes to a close at 5:28pm with a big field handicap chase for horses five and older.

Read below to discover the latest tips for Wexford’s Wednesday card courtesy of BoyleSports, who will be offering the latest Galway Festival odds later this month.

The opener (2.28) sees nine runners head to the start for the two-mile mares beginners chase for horses four and older. The high-profile Henry De Bromhead and Rachael Blackmore duo team up with Still Ciel in the opener, who should be hard to beat here having been a winner over hurdles over this distance and made a promising start over the bigger obstacles when second in a Tipperary novice chase last time out 22 days ago.

Race two of the afternoon (2.58) is another beginners chase over the two-mile trip and ten runners will take it on. Trainer Charles Byrnes sends Maidenstreet here, another who has made a promising start over fences initially before bombing out at Kilbeggan but is down in trip here and worth chancing on previous form. Of his rivals, Common Practice for trainer Joseph O’Brien rates the main danger on the pick of his hurdles form, which includes a win at Fairyhouse back in December.

Eight runners will head to the start for the two-mile handicap chase which marks race three on the Wexford card (3.28) and Bocelli’s Voice for trainer Dermot McLoughlin makes obvious appeals as a previous course and distance winner and a fine third of nine in a Kilbeggan handicap chase last month, plus was a winner of a Wexford beginners chase back in April.

A 0-102 rated handicap chase is race four of the afternoon (3.58) and preference here heads to Farrokh, a Tipperary hurdle winner in May who is open to further improvement for trainer Barry Connell ahead of Falcon Park, underwhelming on hurdling stable debut for Emmet Mullins at Sligo but is back over his favoured larger obstacles.

Caesar Rock for trainer Mouse Morris looks the one to beat in race five (4.28), second in a Wexford novice chase 11 days ago and can go one better here, while the penultimate race on the card (4.58) can go the way of Marronstown for trainer David Christie, lightly-raced as a chaser and scored emphatically at Punchestown last time out so can follow up here under a penalty.

Finally, the card comes to a close with the three-mile handicap chase for horses rated between 0 and 95 with a whopping field of 19 set to take it on at 5.28. A tough one to unpick, slight preference heads to Ocodango Boy, who forges clear at Downpatrick last time out only to unseat his rider two out from home and has been bumped up 2lb in the weights here but he can defy that to get back to winning ways here.