13:05 Navan

Sunday 11 November 2018

All12:3513:0513:3514:1014:4015:1515:45

For Auction Novice Hurdle (Grade 3)

Off time: 13:05 | Winning time: 3m 56.70s

Quick Grabim³⁵

Age: 6| Weight: 11-8| J: Ruby Walsh| T: W P Mullins| D

7/4

Career-best when winning six-runner novices' hurdle at Tipperary (2m, good) last month. Carries a penalty for that success and has been guilty of racing keenly but still very likely to go close.

Form: 70/2F-11

Aramon⁵⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 11-1| J: Paul Townend| T: W P Mullins| BF

8/1

Easy winner of 2m4f Kilbeggan maiden hurdle before running close second in Listowel novice in September down to 2m. Should go well again for champion trainer.

Form: 12

Choungaya^t³⁴

Age: 5| Weight: 11-1| J: Mark Walsh| T: J P O'Brien| D

50/1

Walk In The Park gelding, off the mark last month in Tipperary maiden hurdle over 2m on good ground. This is tougher but going in the right direction.

Form: 73-231

Daybreak Boy⁴⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-1| J: Rachael Blackmore| T: H De Bromhead| CD

16/1

Won over C&D in a maiden hurdle in September and did so with a bit up his sleeve. This is a tougher assignment on paper. Improving though.

Form: 365-21

Felix Desjy^h¹⁵

Age: 5| Weight: 11-1| J: Jack Kennedy| T: G Elliott| D

1/1

Very impressive when making a winning start to hurdling career at Galway (2m½f, yielding) recently and hard to oppose receiving 7lb from main market rival.

Form: 1/1165-1

Magnium¹⁸²

Age: 5| Weight: 11-1| J: R M Power| T: Mrs J Harrington

20/1

Maiden hurdle winner at Killarney in May on second start, form that will have to be improved on having since left Tony Martin to join this trainer.

Form: 7-1

Make My Heart Fly^t⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 10-12| J: D N Russell| T: G Elliott| OR: 130| D

50/1

Mare racked up a four-timer over hurdles in late summer, continues to run well as in Grade 3 mares' novice at Down Royal over this trip last week, but should again be vulnerable in this field.

Form: 112433

Non-Runners

Western Victory¹⁴

Weight: 10-8| Age: 5

T: C Bowe J: Sean Flanagan

Forecasts

Felix Desjy (1/1), Quick Grabim (7/4), Aramon (8/1), Daybreak Boy (16/1), Magnium (20/1), Western Victory (33/1), Choungaya (50/1), Make My Heart Fly (50/1)

This is a race Gordon Elliott has won the last two renewals of with subsequent Grade 1 winners Labaik and Mengli Khan and his FELIX DESJY looks the one to be on now. He ran well in bumpers at the Cheltenham and Punchestown Festivals in the spring and made a strong impression when winning on his hurdling bow at Galway. There should be more to come. Quick Grabim can ensure he is kept honest now, though conceding 7lb may ultimately be his undoing. This is no two-horse race and don't be shocked if some of Aramon, Choungaya and Daybreak Boy are still in the mix at the death.