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Five top horses of the Dublin Racing Festival

It has been a little quieter on these pages lately, but that is changing again now. This time our view goes to Ireland, because  many of the Irish cracks for the Cheltenham Festival are in action on Saturday and Sunday at the third edition of the Dublin Racing Festival in Leopardstown. Jump racing at its best: Four Grade 1 races on Saturday, the same number again on Sunday, promise lots of class and excitement. Five top horses of the festival.  Chacun Pour Soi (Ladbroke Dublin Chase): It was in April 2019 during the Punchestown Festival, when the name Chacun Pour Soi was on everyone's lips. He had easily defeated Defi Du Seuil and Duc Des Genievres in the Ryanair Novice Chase. The defeated horses had won the JLT Novice Chase and the Arkle Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, two of the most important races for young chasers. It was a fantastic performance by the gelding who had come to Willie Mullins from France in December 2016. He was, like many Mullins horses, not yet at 1