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Racing betting tips: Sunday September 27
1pt e.w. Bunting in 16:20 the Curragh at 20/1 (bet365 1/5 1,2,3,4,5) – min 20/1
4:20 Curragh – Friends of The Curragh Irish Cesarewitch 2m
Willie Mullins and Tony Bloom have the favourite here in The Reverend, who will be trying the trip for the first time. He’s got obvious claims if his stamina holds out, but the putative Mullins/Bloom second string, BUNTING, is also interesting back on the Flat after a confidence-boosting win over fences.
It’s fair to say that Bunting didn’t live up to expectations after showing his class form as a juvenile hurdler and he’s been fancied on more than one occasion over hurdles in the last season only to disappoint.
He’s had very few tries on the level, however, and shaped really well when third in the Cesarewitch at Newmarket last season, when William Buick felt he might have won had he delayed his challenge a little longer. That run came off a BHA mark of 95 and he’s rated 96 today which highlights his chance on form. The only outing he’s had since on the Flat came in the Ascot Stakes in the summer under a 7lb claimer where he ran on late from a poor position, and he’s best not judged on that effort.
Since starting stalls have been used for the Irish Cesarewitch (previously a flag start), the winners have come from stalls 18, 21, 27 and 30, so Bunting’s draw in stall 24 should not be seen as a negative.
Magellan Straight won this at 150/1 two years ago for Joseph O’Brien and owner Ray Grehan, and the pair have a remarkably similar sort here in that one’s full-brother Glenroyal; like Magellan Straight, Glenroyal was useful and progressive as a three-year-old, signing off with victory in a minor conditions race before disappointing the following year until fitted with severe headgear. Magellan Straight was wearing blinkers when scoring here (albeit he had done so on his previous two starts) and Glenroyal is now tried in a visor for the first time having raced in cheekpieces.
Glenroyal disappointed in the Ascot Stakes and Petingo Handicap earlier in the campaign but it’s encouraging that connections keep looking for the key to him as they did with Magellan Straight and while the fitting of a visor for such a horse would normally smack of desperation, the fact that Glenroyal is following a similar path to his brother suggests some method in the apparent madness.
Preview posted 11:38 BST on 27/09/26
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