Forecast odds: 7-1
Should star mare Honeysuckle be off her A-game the high-class Sharjah could pick up the pieces at what is a slightly insulting price given his ability.
Sharjah: top-class performer should outrun his odds once again
Patrick McCann
The eight-year-old is a three-time Matheson Hurdle winner, Galway Hurdle hero and has finished second in the Champion Hurdle for the past two years, but has strong course-and-distance form too having beaten Faugheen comprehensively in the 2018 Morgiana Hurdle.
Despite finishing ahead of Epatante and Goshen at Cheltenham last month, they are preferred toSharjah inthe betting despite having more questions to answer. Should the race fall apart, the fast-finisher could use his trademark turn of foot to give Willie Mullins a record-extending ninth win.
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NEW memorial walls to be built in the Ipswich General Cemetery to honour ‘forgotten’ soldiers who were buried without any recognition of their service have been approved by the council.
Identifying former servicemen and the roles they played in conflicts of years gone by has been Ipswich RSL Sub Branch stalwart Matt Rennie’s mission for the past 15 years.
Ipswich City Council has now approved two 4.5 metre long and 1.1 metre high concrete walls in the Australian Imperial Forces section of the cemetery. Artist s impression of Australian Imperial Force section with two new walls in Ipswich Cemetery.
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PLANS are in place to build new walls to commemorate Australian soldiers buried in the Ipswich Cemetery who were laid to rest without any recognition of their service.
A development application has been submitted to Ipswich City Council to construct the memorial walls in the Australian Imperial Forces area.
Ipswich RSL Sub Branch stalwart Matt Rennie has spent the past 15 years identifying veterans in the cemetery on the corner of Warwick Road and Cooney Street. Existing wall in Australian Imperial Forces section in Ipswich Cemetery.
“In 2006 (Ipswich City Council) built the project War Graves Rehabilitation,” the application notes.
UPDATED 10:05AM, APR 10 2021
There will be a Tiger Roll-shaped hole in Saturday s Randox Grand National, but the world s greatest steeplechase is shaping up to be as competitive as ever, with the likes of Ladbrokes Trophy hero and clear ante-post favourite Cloth Cap, Welsh National winner Secret Reprieve, Burrows Saint and Kimberlite Candy among the 68 possibles remaining for the race.
Will one of those horses etch their name into the history books? Or could this be the year of another shock to rival the likes of Auroras Encore, Mon Mome and Foinavon? Our experts give their thoughts on the illustrious race.