LE VENT D’ANTAN: Cheltenham bumper date for impressive Leopardstown winner.
A further postscript to the weekends excellent racing at Leopardstown was the impressive debut win of Le Vent D’Antan in the bumper on Saturday.
I napped against him the race but it soon became a case of ‘hands-up I got it badly wrong’ as he travelled supremely well throughout and justified the support on BETDAQ for him throughout the day.
Hard to quantify the form of course but no surprises to hear he is set to head straight to the Weatherbys Champion Bumper via a racecourse gallop.
The biggest question over the four-year-old is whether he will still be in the care of Liz Doyle, but there is no news of a transfer just yet.
Wexford trainer Doyle brought through the ranks both 2011 Bumper star Cheltenian and Al Ferof, who took that year’s Supreme and has become a high-class chaser, before they moved to Britain.
“There have been a lot of enquiries, nothing has happened at the minute, but the syndicate who own him are based in London and I imagine they will be talking about it,” Doyle said.
“I don’t know if they want to sell, I hope he stays with us, but it’s up to them what they want to do.”
Doyle said: “He has done very well since the race, we’ve had no problems with him at all, and he’ll probably have a racecourse gallop now. It might be at Leopardstown, depending on the ground, but he’ll have a day away somewhere and won’t have another race before Cheltenham.
“It’s a long six weeks, but that’s the plan. He’s a gorgeous horse, when you see him you go ‘wow, what’s that?’.”
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