Bobbyjo Chase card given go-ahead after Fairyhouse passes inspection

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The best Grand National trial of the year and Saturday's feature race in Ireland will go ahead after Fairyhouse passed an inspection on Saturday morning.

It is heavy ground at the County Meath track, where conditions were deemed raceable ahead of the eight-race jumps card. 

The Gordon Elliott-trained Three Card Brag heads the market for the BAR 1 Betting Bobbyjo Chase (3.15), which has produced the subsequent winner of the Grand National for the past two seasons in the Willie Mullins-trained pair of Nick Rockett and I Am Maximus. 

Fairyhouse clerk of the course Brian Hamilton said: "Since our update yesterday afternoon we have had a further 2mm of rain overnight but it's been a dry morning and the ground remains heavy.

"It is set to remain dry here until late morning and there is the possibility of 3mm of rain through to the end of racing."

There are no other inspections scheduled for Saturday, with jumps action in Britain at Kempton, Newcastle and Chepstow and all-weather racing from Lingfield and Chelmsford.

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