{"id":276177,"date":"2026-01-09T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/276177\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:17:11","slug":"drew-anticipating-further-progress-from-final-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/276177\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew anticipating further progress from Final Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owner Bryan Drew is respectful of the opposition despite warning there will be more to come from Final Demand ahead of what could be a mouthwatering Ladbrokes Novice Chase at the Dublin Racing Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Mullins\u2019 exciting chasing prospect has already tasted Grade One success at Leopardstown\u2019s showpiece meeting, lighting up the Foxrock venue with a dazzling display over hurdles 12 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-year-old will now return to the Irish capital searching for a repeat and having already secured top honours over the larger obstacles when scoring at Limerick at Christmas, connections are relishing locking horns with the cream of the Irish novice chasing scene.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2b50\ufe0f A fabulous performance from Final Demand in our feature race, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuinnessIreland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GuinnessIreland<\/a> 00 Faugheen Novice Chase <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2sDT0llMCD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2sDT0llMCD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Limerick Races (@LimerickRaces) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LimerickRaces\/status\/2005278390593437946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t go there confident, but I think our fella is yet to run his best race this season and I don\u2019t think he\u2019s been fully fit in either of his outings,\u201d said Drew, who owns Final Demand alongside good friend and long-time racing associate Professor Caroline Tisdall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at the entries, you\u2019ve got to have huge respect for some of the possible opposition like Romeo Coolio and Kitzbuhel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJimmy Du Seuil didn\u2019t like the ground much at Limerick and he is much better than he showed us then and there will be others in there as well to watch for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a funny race on sticky sort of ground at Limerick and he just did what was required. We\u2019ll probably go there as favourite and probably rightly so, it looks a tremendous race and I can\u2019t wait to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767956710502_1.jpg--.jpg\" width=\"640\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Such is Final Demand\u2019s potential, Drew admits to having felt the weight of expectation ahead of his festive outing, where he added his name to the Faugheen Novice Chase roll of honour with a facile eight-length success which still had some wishing for more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went to Limerick with a little trepidation, albeit being 1-3 favourite. I always felt that was too short and we were worried about Jimmy Du Seuil, who never ran his race as it turned out,\u201d added Drew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you wanted to be picky, you could say the other two in the race got a bit too close to him, but then he\u2019s had an off-day and still won with his head in his chest really, which is the sign of a classy horse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end it was a nice day out and the horse won well despite probably not running his best race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767956710502_2.jpg--.jpg\" width=\"640\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It was a victory which strengthened Final Demand\u2019s position at the head of the Brown Advisory Novices\u2019 Chase market as the general even-money favourite.<\/p>\n<p>Next on the list for that Cheltenham Festival event is possible Leopardstown rival Romeo Coolio, who has also secured top-level this success over fences this term and could meet Final Demand at what is his optimum trip on February 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be interesting if Romeo Coolio does line-up as it seems they can\u2019t make their mind up about trip and opportunities and with a horse like him, it does feel a shame there is no longer the Grade One two-and-a-half-mile chase for novices at the Festival, but then you can\u2019t please everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey seem to be in a similar situation we found ourselves in last season when we had to decide whether to run in the Turners or Albert Bartlett at Cheltenham, but it will be interesting to see them go head-to-head at Leopardstown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>          <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owner Bryan Drew is respectful of the opposition despite warning there will be more to come from Final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[139798,139799,18,139800,19,17,43748,82,131568],"class_list":{"0":"post-276177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-bryan-drew","9":"tag-dublin-racing-festival","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-final-demand","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-leopardstown","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-willie-mullins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115866045621129117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}