Rinneen, trained by R. Hannon

[non vintage]

Rinneen – 3yo filly<br>Bien Bien(USA) (11.0f) – Sparky’s Song (Electric(11.6f)

This filly has had four runs so far this year, all over distances between 10 and 12 furlongs. In each case, she has been staying on towards the latter stages of the race, most recently when beaten into 3rd by Elusive Dream (Prescott) where she was outpaced having reached the front rank and then kept on to regain 3rd in the final furlong.

Off a mark of around 50, and having proved herself on a variety of goings, she has the ability to win a couple of small handicaps when and if she is stepped up to distances of at least 1m 6f.

She is entered in a 2m handicap at Lingfield on 14th July, but may not get in or may be well out of the handicap proper. She may be interesting each-way at a big price if she does line up, but at least it shows that connections have the right idea about her now, and they may ‘save’ her for something more suitable.

[non vintage]

Rinneen ran in a 3yo handicap on the 22nd July at Folkestone on reasonably fast going (officially good to firm but possibly on the dead side) over 12 furlongs.

D’oh! I didn’t back her, and she ran her usual race over this trip, being outpaced and ridden as the race developed in earnest before staying on well, eventually finishing 4th of 14, with a gap to the rest of the field who finished reasonably well strung out.

She remains of great interest if and when stepped up in trip (come on guys!), and the RP race analyst even commented on the fact that she "has a profile of getting outpaced before staying on and repeated it here. She remains difficult to win with despite continually getting relief from the handicapper."

Off a mark of just 46, I still believe she is of massive interest should connections cotton on to her seemingly obvious need for a longer trip and at least give her a go over 14f+ …<br>

[non vintage]

Rinneen is entered in the 2m handicap which closes the card at Chepstow tomorrow (bank holiday monday)…

There are only 8 runners and nothing which stands out as being dangerously unexposed or an obvious progressor, although the chances of a massive price are minimal and the ground is likely to be pretty testing.

The most worrying opponent is the hitherto seemingly talentless Ballet Ruse from the Prescott yard, stepping up to 2 miles from a mile, but having beaten only 6 of 70 rivals in five races so far there must be a doubt as to whether this filly has anything like the ability her breeding or connections would suggest, and Rainbow Quest’s do not always relish very soft ground.

Curiously, but helpfully, the RP spotlight writer has priced Rinneen up at 10/1 in the paper tissue (bless you!), and the comments read "Hasn´t shaped like a stayer in her career thus far but half-brother is a winner at this trip; well beaten only try on soft ground and likely to find this stretching her."

I might have got this one well wrong and admittedly the ground is a slight question mark, but to my mind almost every run has suggested this horse needs a staying trip!!!

(Edited by non vintage at 7:54 pm on Aug. 29, 2004)

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