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De Bromhead has put in the same owners 97 rated Oscillating Oscar as a possible pacemaker.
Agreed, but in these fast-run handicaps you often need to travel and just keep going and at 25’s I’d be prepared to take a chance.
I think Siege Of Ennis could go well in this. He’s not one to trust at a short price but he seems to like Leopardstown and ran well in the Fred Winter last year. He travels and jumps well and I can see him coming from off the pace to get involved. It will be interesting to see who rides him.
After this year’s blank, Mickey Joe to go out with a major Group 1 winner …… maybe Arazan in the Guineas or Sea The Stars at Epsom.
I was surprised The Listener wasn’t favourite for this. While it was a weaker race and he had the run of it to a certain extent, he was still devastating in this last year.
Was there much rain around Kildare today Carvill’s?When Northern Alliance started to show improved form in the spring he won at Leopardstown before being beaten twice going RH (although going close in defeat both times). He then won at Killarney and I fancied him for the Galway Hurdle after that but he didn’t just seem to travel as as sweetly as he did before (again possibly due to track/ground) and hung-in behind the front two before the last, ending up on the rail as far as I remember. I didn’t see his last race but the formbook comment says he hung-right after the last. I’m far from an expert on the subject, but he does seem to carry his tail a little awkwardly as well which may sometimes indicate a preference.
This can be an attritional race and one I would avoid if I had a decent novice chaser. Forpaddy, Trafford Lad and Northern Alliance may well all be better suited to going left-handed. At 20’s+ the pair, I’d prefer to take a chance with Casey Jones, who is not the strongest of finishers but is a strong traveller for whom the trip is right and has plenty of experience and the one he beat the last day, Golden Sword (in Cooldine’s colours) who has soft ground form in France and is interestingly pitched in here by Mullins without having won a novice chase.
After O’Brien’s filly won the Listed race at Fairyhouse last Sunday week he immediately bellowed ‘if that doesn’t win ride of the week I don’t know what will’ ….. or words to that effect. No analysis or comment on what had happened in the race just a reference to a pointless in-house award.
Can’t go along with everyone that is rating her one of the best horses they have ever seen ……….. a couple of lengths over Youmzain and the same from Da Re Mi & Gagnoa previously. Great in terms of achievement of course but inferior as a racehorse to the likes of Montjeu, Peintre Celebre, Sinndar & Dalakhani to name a few relatively recent winners of the race, in my opinion anyway.
Try http://www.wpmullins.com – they have started to update it again recently.
Had a quick look at the Weekender and Tom Segal appeared to be saying that he didn’t fancy SOF …….. nothing else negative if that is itself a negative.
Dundalk have put on a race that would suit DOM as a Breeders Cup Classic trial on the Friday prior to the Arc.SOF weak on the machine apparently due to a report in the Weekender suggesting that all may not be well – did anyone happen to read if and if so what was said?
It is unlikely she will display any additional ‘toe’ for use of the whip.
If and when she does get a few cracks it will more likely be in an attempt to decrease her rate of de-acceleration through the latter stages of a tough race.
