Irish Lincolnshire Predictions and Tips

The first thing to say about the Irish Lincolnshire is that it’s a wide open race where the favourite is currently trading at 5/1. PATRICK SARSFIELD is the pick of the four-year-olds for many punters, with Joseph O’Brien having a potential superstar on his hands.

The horse has a favourable handicap of 8-7 and returns to a track where he enjoyed a facile victory over the same distance back in October, although we should bear in mind that the runner was sent off at 1/5 in that particular race and the competition will be a good deal stiffer this weekend.

Earlier in the same month, Patrick Sarsfield was beaten into second at Cork despite being sent off as 1/2 favourite and there are several attractive options trading at a bigger price including LANCASTER HOUSE.

Aidan O’Brien is the king of Irish trainers and the man at Coolmore will feel confident that his strongest four-year-old in the race can land a victory, with the horse having racked up three consecutive wins last year before a disappointing final run in 2019.

Despite being sent off as warm favourite at Leopardstown, the horse finished seventh of nine, although perhaps he can be forgiven for an off-run and we might expect better things to come.

NJORD also looks like a progressive type, with Jessica Harrington’s charge having won his previous encounter when triumphing by a distance slightly longer than a mile and it was a relatively comfortable win as the 9/4 favourite on soft-to-heavy ground.

If Joseph O’Brien hits the post with Patrick Sarsfield, then perhaps it will be NUMERIAN who scores for the young trainer determined to make a name for himself.

The four-year-old is trading at odds of 8/1 although the big concern is that the horse has failed to land a success in any of his previous six outings and perhaps an each-way bet would be a safer option.

The last time that O’Brien Jnr’s charge was seen at a race track, he ran in a competitive Group 3 encounter and finished second behind Blenheim Palace. The fact that it was a slender margin of defeat will see connections draw plenty of confidence ahead of this one.

At a slightly bigger price, one horse we like is BUCKY LARSON and we’ve seen the horse run already in 2020, with the Lyons-trained charge having finished third on the all-weather at Dundalk before a winning return to the same track on 21 February.