✅ Result In

Lord Hemphill Memorial Handicap Steeplechase

Galway · Sun 2nd Aug 2026 · 15:30
📏 2m2f54y 🌿 GOOD, Good to yielding in places 🏟️ Turf 💰 €18,000 🐎 Chase
2nd
Coming Up Easy
4/1
Darragh O'Keeffe
1st
Blood Destiny
5/1
Paul Townend
3rd
Watch The Weather
11/1
Josh Williamson(3)
📏
Distance
2m2f54y
🌿
Going
GOOD, Good to yielding in places
🏟️
Surface
Turf
💰
Prize
€18,000
🐎
Runners
12
🔖
Type
Chase
Pos Horse / Form Age/Wgt Jockey / Trainer OR Odds
🥇 1st
Blood Destiny Form: P125-2
7y
166 lbs
Paul Townend
W P Mullins
150 5/1
7
Itsalladream Form: 45-554
7y
140 lbs
Phillip Enright
Paul John Gilligan
122 7/2F
🥉 3rd
Watch The Weather Form: 86-205
10y
140 lbs
Josh Williamson(3)
R P Cody
121 11/1
4
Bythesametoken Form: /1359-
12y
140 lbs
Conor Stone-Walsh
Ross O'Sullivan
118 33/1
🥈 2nd
Coming Up Easy Form: 1/1P0-
8y
156 lbs
Darragh O'Keeffe
Henry De Bromhead
140 4/1
6
Runcok Form: F174-6
6y
149 lbs
J J Slevin
John C McConnell
133 50/1
5
Le Nez Creux Form: 13152-
5y
148 lbs
Mark Walsh
Gavin Cromwell
132 9/1
5
Path d'Oroux Form: 4950-0
9y
146 lbs
Eoghan Finegan(5)
Gavin Cromwell
130
10
The Banger Doyle Form: 660-72
10y
145 lbs
Danny Mullins
John Queally
129 9/1
8
Drumgill Form: U-75P4
7y
141 lbs
Michael Kenneally(5)
John Patrick Ryan
125 6/1
11
Lisleigh Lad Form: 24-341
8y
140 lbs
Alan O'Sullivan(5)
Ms Eleanor Broderick
123 11/2
9
War Correspondent Form: -44U43
7y
140 lbs
Paddy Hanlon(5)
John Joseph Hanlon
123 33/1
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RACING POST VERDICT

Blood Destiny heads this twelve-runner field on good ground at Galway over eighteen furlongs, rated a clear sixteen points ahead of Path d'Oroux and notably clear of the remainder, and the form behind that rating looks solid enough to make this a confident call. Path d'Oroux and Coming Up Easy represent the most obvious threats, with Le Nez Creux also worth keeping onside in a race that looks competitive beyond the front two. That said, Blood Destiny's superiority over the field here is genuine and well-founded. **Blood Destiny** is our selection.

Racing Post Pick
Blood Destiny