The Betway ambassador runs by his 4 rides at Fairyhouse on Saturday and three at Punchestown on Sunday, together with Sober within the Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle.
4 Saturday rides at Fairyhouse
I kick off the weekend within the first race at Fairyhouse, a four-year-old hurdle (12:00), on Macho Man / . He comes with an enormous status however so does his most important rival on this, Proactif. We’ve been watching them and using them lots at dwelling, and so they appear like two very good horses. I like my fella quite a bit, though I suppose just a few of the others have far more moderen race expertise. Ours have come from France and so they have a great deal of leaping already finished. Our two are definitely very good horses, I simply hope it’s Mark Walsh who’s trying in the back of me.
Subsequent up is the Maiden Hurdle (12:30), the place I trip Bambino Fever / . We had been clearly disillusioned to get overwhelmed in Naas the final day, as she was such a superb bumper filly. Earlier than that she was 4 from 4 together with a giant Cheltenham Champion Bumper win, so my sister Jody – who rode Bambino Fever to victory – retains reminding me. I feel we would have run into an above common mare in opposition that day, as we had been each a great distance away from the third. That may occur, and if Gordon Elliott’s horse isn’t within the race we win nicely and are delighted, so there are positives to take out of it. Hopefully she will proper that flawed by placing that have to good use. That stated, we’ll positively be disillusioned if she will’t make up for that defeat right here. She does appear good after the final run.
I’ve gone for Blood Future 9/2 within the Grade 3 Handicap Chase (13:40). I keep in mind a time the place I couldn’t cut up him with Lossiemouth, and their careers have clearly gone alternative ways. I’m taking an opportunity on him on good floor again over two miles. He’s been preserving good kind and in good firm. He simply didn’t keep in Galway – up that hill you actually do have to remain there. It’s not splendid giving weight away to every part within the area however he’s a high-class horse. He may simply discover handicap firm simpler once more and begin having fun with it – that’s what I’m hoping anyway. I’m going to let him go on and revel in himself, he appears to be a really stable jumper and a graded horse in a handicap. He has prime weight for a purpose.
Lastly on Saturday I trip Port Joulain 5/2 within the Rookies Chase (14:15). It’s a large drop in journey from his first run in a freshmen, the place he simply ran a bit eager over almost three miles at Punchestown on heavy floor and paid the penalty for that. He positively has to enhance on what we noticed that day, which was disappointing. On the flip aspect, he jumped nicely for Danny and for a great distance, so he probably simply did a bit an excessive amount of and acquired drained. This time of the yr we’ll get a run into him and see the place we’re.
Three good rides at Punchestown on Sunday
The Grade 3 Novice Chase (12:50) kicks off three good rides and a few nice racing in Punchestown. On this one I’ve chosen to trip Predators Gold / . I do know he missed a yr, however he was a novice hurdler that we appreciated quite a bit. He got here again after an enormous absence of 582 days to win a superb race in Navan beneath Danny Mullins. I suppose his novice chasing season has simply been delayed a yr, however he seemed to retain all his kind that day. There are some nice strains of kind from that run and that’s the route I took in selecting him right here. He can solely enhance if he carried out like that after an extended absence, and chasing appears to swimsuit him.
The characteristic race on the cardboard is the Grade 1 Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle (14:20). Sober / is an attention-grabbing one, and naturally if it was a flat race he could be very brief. It wasn’t a simple selection as Free Spirit appears respectable and could have a giant season to come back. It’s a small area however a aggressive one. If I’m on the flawed one it simply means now we have an excellent horse in Free Spirit – that’s the way in which I take a look at it. Sober’s flat kind, together with the Royal Ascot race over almost 2m 6f, may imply that in time he wants additional over hurdles. He has an incredible stage of capability.
I wind up the day using Riskabahia / in a Maiden Hurdle (14:50) with a most area. She weakened quite a bit late on in her first race for us at Navan. We anticipated much more, she was fairly eager that day and possibly simply did an excessive amount of on the heavy floor. She wears a hood now and you could possibly in all probability forgive her that from what she confirmed us at dwelling. She’s nonetheless working nicely at dwelling, so it is a second likelihood to point out us one thing. The hood will settle her down and the final run might have taken the fizz out of her. It definitely wasn’t a weak race the place she made her debut, and I hope she exhibits us what she’s proven us at dwelling on this second run.
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