Sunday Racing Tips: Lynches can knock them out of the park at Naas

| Sunday 22nd February 2026, 9:55am

Sunday 22nd February 2026, 9:55am

We have a fairly quiet Sunday on our hands this week, with just three meetings taking place across Britain and Ireland, and the best of the action comes from Naas. The Irish track’s seven-race card features a Grade 3 chase over two miles, as well as a couple of interesting Listed contests. One is a juvenile hurdle and the other is a thoroughly competitive novice handicap.

Below are my Sunday Horse Racing Tips and they include a Gordon Elliott runner who can go all the way in the opening maiden hurdle.

Horse Racing odds

Sunday Horse Racing Tips - February 22

14:00 Naas - Lynches Knock @ 2/1
14:30 Naas - Immediate Effect @ 15/8
16:30 Naas - Touch Me Not @ 2/1

*Odds correct as of the time of publication

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14:00 Naas - Lynches Knock @ 2/1

Gordon Elliott continues to land winners at a consistent rate and may well have another in the opening race at Naas.

LYNCHES KNOCK made his debut in an academy hurdle at Navan in December and performed with plenty of credit, going on to finish third.

Improving at Leopardstown next time, the chestnut gelding managed to get off the mark in another academy race, this time over 2m2f, and he showed a good attitude to hold off Kilbarry Lizzy and score by a neck.

The son of Kessaar contested a four-year-old maiden hurdle at Naas last time out and only the Willie Mullins-trained Kai Lung was too good. A similar effort would surely put him in the mix once again now, although it would be unwise to rule out further improvement.

14:30 Naas - Immediate Effect @ 15/8

Another one for Gordon Elliott, IMMEDIATE EFFECT was a fair performer on the Flat and earned a rating of 88 in that sphere. He had a particularly good record on the all-weather and won a Southwell handicap off 81 with plenty in hand over the summer.

Elliott’s juvenile made no mistake when getting off the mark over hurdles at the first time of asking at Punchestown over the Christmas period. The penny dropped in the final furlong and he ran on well to score by three lengths in the end.

Connections threw him in the deep end somewhat at Leopardstown last time out and whilst he wasn’t quite up to the level, he was far from disgraced back in fifth. The handicapper has given him a mark of 129, which probably makes him the one to beat, and the drop in class will also help.

16:30 Naas - Touch Me Not @ 2/1

Blood Destiny is well worth taking on if his latest run is anything to go by, and 11-year-old Captain Guinness hasn’t been firing on all cylinders so far this season. With that in mind, TOUCH ME NOT looks like the value pick in the penultimate race on the card at Naas.

His novice chase form is rock-solid and he won the Grade 2 Craddockstown Novice Chase with plenty in hand last season, before a trip to Britain for the Grade 1 Henry VIII Novices’, in which he finished second.

This son of Malinas has been running well in handicap chases off big weights and perhaps this sort of grade will suit, even if he is not well treated by the race conditions.

Horse Racing tips from Betfred Insights.