17:05 Down Royal

Friday 1 September 2017

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Allied Bakeries Mares Maiden Hurdle

Off time: 17:05 | Winning time: 3m 54.40s

Court Artist⁴²

Age: 6| Weight: 11-7| J: Ruby Walsh| T: W P Mullins

2/1

Off the mark second time of asking in bumpers, winning over 2m4f at Kilbeggan in July (good), down in trip for hurdles bow but should go well for champion trainer/jockey.

Form: 2-1

Dixie Lee²⁰⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-7| J: M A Enright| T: D A McLoughlin| CD

4/1

Dual-bumper winner in March 2016, clearly had some issues since then and hard to gauge ability level now for first jumping test. Watch betting.

Form: 31/1749-

Joy's Gift²⁵

Age: 6| Weight: 11-7| J: Robbie Colgan| T: P Maher| OR: 100| CD

14/1

Bumper winner here last August, can be given a chance on the best of her maiden hurdle form but comes here off the back of a disappointing run at Cork last month.

Form: 80-5625

Payngo²⁵

Age: 5| Weight: 11-7| J: Danny Mullins| T: Ms M Mullins| D

10/1

Lightly-raced mare has been improving with each of her three starts over timber to date, hit the frame last month in 23-runner Cork maiden over this trip. Possibly more to come yet.

Form: 5-61853

Osco Mosco¹⁴

Age: 4| Weight: 11-3| J: D N Russell| T: G Elliott| D

6/1

Bumper winner at Wexford in July (2m, yielding) and pleasing start over hurdles since at Tramore when second to odds-on winner from the Mullins yard. Drops back significantly in trip from that hurdles run now.

Form: 22212

Reinas Queen²²

Age: 4| Weight: 11-3| J: R Loughran| T: Mrs S Dawson

50/1

Filly was a modest winner on the Flat and a shock if she proves up to a winning start now changing code.

Form:

Amarillo Rose¹⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 10-13| J: A W Short⁽⁷⁾| T: L Lennon| OR: 97

16/1

Slowly getting the hang of things in maiden hurdles, best effort last time at Sligo (2m, yielding) when under 2L second of seven. Could run into the place money.

Form: 044U32

Delayed Eloquence²⁵

Age: 6| Weight: 10-13| J: S A Shortall⁽³⁾| T: J P O'Brien| OR: 104| BF

7/2

Has become costly to follow, runner-up having gone off favourite on three most recent starts over variety of trips. Suspicion that 2m may be sharp enough after last effort at Cork.

Form: 5-S5222

Ellas Ma²⁸⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 10-13| J: I J McCarthy| T: Nicole McKenna

100/1

Only modest efforts recorded in bumpers last year and off the track since tame showing on AW at Dundalk in November. First start for new yard.

Form: P0/098-

Megans Bella^p1⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 10-13| J: Brian Hayes| T: A McCann

100/1

Mare was completely tailed off in a bumper at Kilbeggan last week on rules debut, not easy to make any case for a turnaround with the hurdles in her path here and cheekpieces added.

Form: PP-9

Piranto¹²³

Age: 5| Weight: 10-13| J: C D Maxwell| T: M G Quinn

66/1

Never a factor in sole hurdles outings at Downpatrick in May (2m, good) having gone off at 40/1, off since and uphill task ahead here seemingly.

Form: 606-0

Speedbird One⁷⁸⁰

Age: 6| Weight: 10-13| J: A E Lynch| T: S R B Crawford

50/1

Mare showed very little in two maiden hurdles when in the care of Gordon Elliott, she has now been off the track for 780 days and is not fancied for a winning return based on old form.

Form: 77/

True Identity¹⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 10-13| J: Sean Flanagan| T: N Meade

40/1

Beaten 22L in a maiden hurdle over this trip at Sligo on yielding ground 10 days ago, may be capable of better effort.

Form: 5

Adelena¹⁹

Age: 4| Weight: 10-12| J: B T O'Connell| T: N McKnight

100/1

Sent off big prices for maiden hurdles at Limerick and Downpatrick this summer, without ever threatening to cause an upset. Back down in trip this time, others better placed.

Form: 98

Charms Bracelet^b²⁰

Age: 4| Weight: 10-12| J: Jack Kennedy| T: A Murray| OR: 88

66/1

Unplaced in seven starts over hurdles and has yet to threaten over a variety of trips, drops to the minimum again here but is easily bypassed.

Form: 96-5090

Peggy's Acre^t¹⁸

Age: 4| Weight: 10-12| J: G N Fox| T: G P Cromwell| OR: 88

50/1

15L third of 10 last month at Ballinrobe in 2m1½f maiden hurdle on yielding ground, will have to better the form to improve on finishing position on this fourth start over timber.

Form: 8-00603

Non-Runners

Banrion Na Speire⁹⁷

Weight: 10-13| Age: 5

T: D Cullen J: J S McGarvey

Forecasts

Court Artist (2/1), Delayed Eloquence (7/2), Dixie Lee (4/1), Osco Mosco (6/1), Payngo (10/1), Joy's Gift (14/1), Amarillo Rose (16/1), True Identity (40/1), Speedbird One (50/1), Peggy's Acre (50/1), Reinas Queen (50/1), Banrion Na Speire (50/1), Charms Bracelet (66/1), Piranto (66/1), Ellas Ma (100/1), Adelena (100/1), Megans Bella (100/1)

It's hard to get away from COURT ARTIST for her powerful connections, she got off the mark in good style in her second bumper outing and should have no worries dropping back in trip for this mission. Osco Mosco chassed home a stablemate of the selection on her jumps bow at Tramore and can get involved once more, while Delayed Eloquence should feature in the shake-up but has become accustomed to finishing second and is expensive to follow. Peggy's Acre can be given a chance of running into the minor money.