19:30 Leopardstown
Thursday 22 June 2017
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Hamsandwich Apprentice Handicap (45-75)
- 3YO only | 1m | Good to Firm | 9 Runners | Turf | Weighed In
- Off time: 19:30 | Winning time: 1m 46.10s
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Show odds
Has improved in a trio of maidens this year, at up to 7½f, should hold strong claims now going in a handicap for the first time.
Winner of an AW maiden at Dundalk over the mile in December, has run credibly over longer trip in two turf starts this term, could improve now dropped back to this trip.
Filly who has had her limitations exposed as a 2yo, including when running in handicap company and never figuring in a Group 3 last summer. Tame in 1m maidens at the Curragh and Listowel this term already, she was well beaten over 1m at Limerick five days ago and gets first-time blinkers now.
Didn't looked progressive in four AW maidens last year, beaten 32L in 1m handicap at Limerick five days on seasonal reappearance and has plenty ground to make up on some of these rivals.
Well and truly beaten in three turf maidens so far, drops significantly in trip for this handicap debut. Could be capable of much better but best to wait and see some improvement.
Maiden after 11 starts but has shown ability on a couple of occasions and trainer is likely to get the best out of him sooner or later, though two runs this term haven't hinted that day is looming.
Flopped last time in a Curragh maiden (1m2f, yielding to soft) is however just 2lb higher than when going close in 1m soft ground handicap at Gowran Park in April. Anything but reliable and was poor on only previous encounter with good to firm ground.
Hasn't done much to convince in two handicap starts this season so far, drops in trip here but others easily make more appeal on form.
Well beaten off so far in three maidens, makes handicap debut in this and shouldn't be completely written off, worth a glimpse in the betting.
Forecasts
Noble Intention (3/1), Jet Streaming (4/1), Nutcracker Suite (4/1), Cleona (5/1), Cloudy Miss (8/1), Cascar Cavcha (12/1), Purdey (14/1), Elzaa (20/1), Jamington (28/1)
Not a big field and in truth plenty of these have questions hanging over them. Nutcracker Suite represents Ballydoyle but has not looked great in anything she's done so far, ensuring the added blinkers here will need to work the oracle. Noble Intention won a maiden over the trip on the AW and has shaped well enough in two turf starts over further this season to suggest he might go well back over a mile but the solid option might be JET SETTING. The Born To Sea filly has showed up well in all three maidens and can land a weak handicap at the first attempt.
- Jet Streaming
- Noble Intention
- Nutcracker Suite
Prize Money
1st: €6,775.002nd: €2,101.003rd: €1,002.004th: €450.005th: €176.00
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