Novice looks fairly treated after encouraging chase bow

No. 4
So Influential
5.15 Limerick
1pt win at 9-1 generallyThis nine-year-old was a dual point winner, albeit in pretty poor company, and and after showing very little in four hurdles outings he was much better last month on his chase debut at Clonmel.

Sent to the front from the off, he was still their turning in and was beaten only 18 lengths by a couple of rivals rated in the mid-120s.

An opening chase mark of 103 seems fair enough on the back of that and there's a chance So Influential would have done better if there had been more fences to jump - there were omissions due to a low sun - as he was pretty fluent.