Horse Racing Tips: Dancing City to waltz in on Sunday

There are three cards - all over Jumps - in Britain and Ireland on Sunday, starting at 13:00 and concluding shortly after 16:22.

Among my horse racing tips for the afternoon is a classy Willie Mullins sort that we should expect to stay on course for the big spring festivals.

14:30 Naas - Dancing City @ 8/15

Willie Mullins has run plenty of classy stayers in this Grade 3 novice chase down the years. Most recently, he won last year's running with Embassy Gardens who went on to be second at the Cheltenham Festival and is now a contender for next week's Irish Gold Cup.

This year he runs DANCING CITY, one of Mullins' likelier sorts for the Broadway Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.

He was third in the Albert Bartlett, which did not go his way, while he showed more of what he is about when winning the equivalent race at the Grand National meeting a few weeks later before following up at Punchestown.

Dancing City looks like a chaser and made an impressive start in this sphere at Punchestown in December.

He will need to improve on that performance, but he has plenty of scope to do so and he should have too much for the admittedly promising Bioluminescence.

15:40 Sedgefield - Catch Catchfire @ 11/2

The likelihood is that CATCH CATCHFIRE was always going to end up in staying chases. He has a stout pedigree, being from a family of stayers including former Stayers' Hurdle third Lady Rebecca.

He was marking time over hurdles and, after getting a handicap mark, went straight over fences. He won at Leicester in good style at the start of December, then seemed to find the run coming a bit too soon at Catterick next time.

Catch Catchfire is going even further up in trip now, but Sedgefield does not test stamina all that much.

He is worth persevering with at this sort of distance and is much less exposed than most of his rivals in this low-grade contest.

15:50 Fontwell - Grove Road @ 11/4

It has taken a long time to get here, but GROVE ROAD finally looks ready to fulfil the promise that he would win a long-distance handicap chase.

Since moving to James Owen, Grove Road has run mostly over hurdles. He found his feet in 2024, winning at Newton Abbot in July and again, after four months off, at Huntingdon.

At that point, it became appealing to make use of Grove Road's lower chase mark. He ran at Uttoxeter on New Year's Eve, pulling well clear with Jo Lescribaa but coming off the worse by just a neck.

Considering that rival was so unexposed, Grove Road can be taken as still in top form.

Callum Pritchard, the find of the season among the ranks of conditional jockeys, takes 7lb off his back and can guide him to a first win over fences.

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