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Selection |
Form |
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Guide |
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- Classical Creek
- Sam Ewing / G Elliott
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146
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11/4 |
Classical Creek
Point-to-point winner; smooth winner of a Down Royal bumper on rules debut last season; third behind a stablemate in a five-runner Listed contest bumper at this venue a year ago; made all for an easy maiden hurdle win over C&D last month; deserted by Jack Kennedy.
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- Daydream Nation
- Ben Harvey / William Harvey
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132
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28/1 |
Daydream Nation
No match for Kovanis in his first point; won readily at Durrow in March on third attempt; wide-margin maiden hurdle scorer over this trip at Gowran nine weeks ago; tough task in this company.
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- Doctor Steinberg
- Danny Mullins / W P Mullins
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140
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3/1 |
Doctor Steinberg
Four bumper runs; beaten 22l in third behind top-class stablemate Kopek Des Bordes at Fairyhouse the season before last; after a year off, third at Clonmel in March; won at Ballinrobe in May; fairly tame effort at the Galway festival; much more like it when winning over an extended 2m5f at the same venue on hurdling debut.
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- Kovanis
- Jack Kennedy / G Elliott
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135
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3/1 |
Kovanis
Point-to-point winner for Ger Quinn last autumn; won Leopardstown bumper last Christmas (yielding); poor run at Fairyhouse in April; stepped up from his hurdling debut when a smooth front-running maiden winner at Clonmel; Jack Kennedy sticks with him.
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- Port Authority
- Danny Gilligan / G Elliott
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138
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3/1 |
Port Authority
Comfortable point winner in March for noted producer Matt Flynn O'Connor; sold for GBP200,000; wide-margin winner of a 2m Naas maiden hurdle last month; Jack Kennedy, aboard then, is now on Kovanis.
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- Thedeviluno
- Sean O'keeffe / P Nolan
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128
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15/2 |
Thedeviluno
Runner-up in three bumpers at distances from 2m to 2m4f; form of his Gowran maiden hurdle win is working out well, runner-up Skylight Hustle hacked up at Fairyhouse, third-placed The Passing Wife was third behind Gordon Elliott's Koktail Brut in the Royal Bond.
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