18:00 Navan
Friday 14 July 2017
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Emerald Facility Services Event Cleaning Apprentice Handicap
- 3YO plus | 1m 2f | Good to Firm | 8 Runners | Turf | Weighed In
- Off time: 18:00 | Winning time: 2m 7.8s
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Odds
Horse A-Z
Show odds
Winner of 1m2f handicap at Leopardstown on final start last year, scoring by a narrow margin. Is rated 3lb higher now returning from 258 days off. Market may guide expectations.
Wolverhampton winner over an extended 1m1f in April and ran well on the AW at Newcastle when runner-up subsequently before flopping over 1m2f at the Curragh last month on return to this surface.
Dundalk maiden winner on the AW final start last year and perfectly decent return at Down Royal last month when 2L third of eight over this sort of trip having not enjoyed the best of passages. May well build on that now and should go close.
Winless sequence is now at 20 and dates back over two years, though has run well enough in two previous starts at Leopardstown and Tipperary to merit consideration going back up in trip.
Sole turf success from 14 came over 1m2f at Leopardstown in July, has won on the AW this year (1m4f) but been well held in four turf starts since.
AW maiden winner over 7f, has gone close on that surface over this sort of trip this year. Held by best part of 3L over trip at Roscommon last month though may find a firmer surface in his favour here.
Well beaten off in maidens in May over 1m/1m2f, before finishing 12th of 14, beaten 42L behind Miss Mardan over 1m5f in a Ballinrobe maiden. Handicap debutant.
Beaten 28L at Naas on handicap bow over 1m2f (yielding) late last month, looks in need of some relief from the assessor already and hard to fancy here.
Forecasts
Dancing Doll (2/1), Room To Roam (3/1), Rummaging (4/1), Mainicin (6/1), Vastonea (9/1), Pushaq (10/1), Nevsky (20/1), Bob Moore (33/1)
Rummaging has been knocking around lately and should be involved at the death in this while a case can also be made for Room To Roam, who will be suited if the rain stays away. Vastonea is very much one to note in the betting on return having ended last season on a high but this might go to Tony Martin's DANCING DOLL. The Invincible Spirit filly made a pleasing handicap debut at Down Royal when beaten only 2L have been hemmed in at a crucial stage and she can build on that now to score in the hands of her talented apprentice.
- Dancing Doll
- Rummaging
- Room To Roam
Prize Money
1st: €7,700.002nd: €2,388.003rd: €1,137.004th: €512.005th: €200.00
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