PAUL JACOBS

Paul Jacobs picks his horses to follow

1. A PLUS TARD
(H De Bromhead)
Our opening salvo for this Horses to Follow list is the only charge I would put under the banner as ‘already a star’ following his Cheltenham novice success in the Close Brothers in 2019 and his defeat of Chacun Pour Soi in a Grade One at Leopardstown last season. Based on that win he went off the 7/4 favourite to land the Ryanair Chase, but his jumping was slightly tardy and he didn’t find as much up the final climb as seemed likely.
His novice success at the Festival suggest...