IT’S going to be very interesting to see how The Wallpark fares in the Grade 1 Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot today, pitched into Grade 1 competition for the first time.

He has earned his shot at it too. He is so progressive. From winning a handicap hurdle at Kilbeggan in July off a handicap rating of 129, Gordon Elliott’s horse won a listed handicap hurdle at the Galway Festival off a rating of 137, stepped up to two miles and six and a half furlongs, after which his trainer ventured that he could be a Pertemps horse.