The horse racing broadcaster picks out a few selections for Saturday as the Punchestown Festival arrives to a near.
As soon as once again, interesting wagers are reasonably slender on the ground as the competition goes into its last day and I’ve given the Quality 1 action a swerve in favour of a crack at two of the major discipline handicaps.
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Glengouly gave a bold exhibit for a great deal of past month’s Randox Grand Countrywide but he was beating a retreat when unseating four out and my eye is drawn as an alternative to the unexposed CADATHARLA
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. A progressive kind around hurdles last season, he has been a little something of a slow burner more than fences and it was a tiny astonishing to see him manufactured favourite on his handicap bow at Fairyhouse about Easter. Hardly ever a component there about a much shorter distance than ideal, the working experience gained ought to at least stand to him now he encounters a more appropriate take a look at. His steady has been heading by a lengthy barren operate but the tide will turn at some point and the likely odds assistance compensate for that.
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Rather a few of these attraction as staying capable of profitable off their present-day marks, and the likes of Gold Dancer and Martin Pipe runner-up Waterford Whispers are not handed more than lightly. Even so my two against the field are OLYMPIC Male
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and ENCANTO BRUNO
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The latter would not want the ground to deteriorate as well considerably but following missing a few of engagements at Cheltenham he at least will be clean for a crack at this €100,000 contest. Just two runs back he was a person of the current market principals for the Royal Bond Novices Hurdle on the back again of an amazing start off for Gavin Cromwell at Cheltenham in October. He would in the long run disappoint in that Fairyhouse Quality 1 but testing problems were being pretty much certainly to blame and it was a equivalent story at Leopardstown’s Christmas festival. The garden has currently enjoyed a good 7 days and it could be important that Sean Flanagan (de facto steady jockey with Keith Donoghue wounded) rides Encanto Bruno somewhat than good chaser Visionarian.
For 90 for each cent of his final begin at Fairyhouse it appeared probably that Olympic Guy was established to prove himself a handicap blot but he commenced to paddle just after the closing flight of that three-miler and was mugged late by outsider Mousey Brown. The third and sixth-put horses there both performed perfectly in defeat listed here on Thursday and a 6lb hike for Willie Mullins’ evenly-raced French import doesn’t search insurmountable now that he drops down in distance.
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