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By Galileo, out of Annie Power. Runs in the concluding bumper at Ballinrobe tomorrow evening for JP McManus and Willie Mullins.
I expect if he wins he will be quoted at a silly price for the Champion Bumper.
Gelded before his first run. With that pedigree you might think they’d at least give him a chance. I suppose NH sire ranks are already oversubscribed with Galileo related lines but, even so.
No guarantees – a lot of great race mares didn’t hit anywhere close to the same heights as broodmares.
“Mystical Power (Patrick) makes his debut in the bumper. He is very well bred and we are really looking forward to running him here. He is an ideal bumper type who shows plenty of ability at home. We’re expecting a big run.”
Willie Mullins.
Certainly a likely above average runner.
Will come to the race with a stone in hand performance wise over the field.
Not using a seven pounds claimer brings him closer to the field but if he’s precocious and readied he’d likely have too much for his rivals. It is this massive seven pounds advantage which persuades Mullins to disadvantage all of his runners on debut. It can often bring his more “ordinary” newcomers down in these races, but with his better runners it makes little difference.
Most of of the other runners use claimers
We will see.Got the job done handy enough after a couple behind the saddle, although if he had a nothing pedigree and small time connections you’d just think “yeah quite a nice horse”
Not the 2024 Cheltenham bumper winner, more like a handicapper.
Im sure there will be some on ante post already for the festival.Galileo wouldn’t have had too many Champion Bumper runners I’d guess , best I can see were Supasundae and Pure Science who both ran 6 th
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