17:40 Limerick

Thursday 25 July 2019

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Free Racecourse WiFi At Limerick (C & G) Maiden Hurdle

Off time: 17:41 | Winning time: 4m 59.8s

Bythesametoken¹⁶

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: L P Dempsey| T: R O'Sullivan| OR: 91

4/1

Of little account in bumpers and similar tale so far since going over timber, including last time when making first start in a handicap at Roscommon. Back in maiden company and needing to improve.

Form: 0979-76

Cloudybackwest^p1,t1⁶⁰

Age: 7| Weight: 11-12| J: Gary Noonan⁽⁷⁾| T: P Neville| OR: 90

20/1

Winning point-to-pointer but failed to reach a place in nine attempts over hurdles and has fallen and pulled up in his two starts over fences. Hard to make a case for.

Form: FFP-F1P

Kylebrogue^p1⁵²

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: C A Landers⁽⁵⁾| T: S Braddish

11/1

Yet to happen for this Scorpion gelding in bumper and over timber, tailed off last month at Listowel on first encounter with obstacles and overlooked now.

Form: 9-97

Lough Sewdy¹¹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: R P Treacy⁽⁵⁾| T: S Fahey

9/1

Not really progressing over timber and recent effort at Kilbeggan and Sligo not helped by tendency to get low down on the jumping. Must improve.

Form: 6506

Shedding^p1⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Darragh O'Keeffe⁽⁵⁾| T: W J Burke| OR: 80

10/1

0-8 over hurdles now and yet to even make the frame. Well held last week at Killarney's Summer Festival when not assisted by sloppy jumping at times.

Form: 0P0-007

Table The Motion¹³

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: B J Cooper| T: C O'Brien

7/1

Teofilo gelding with little in the formbook of note. Early jumping mistake at Cork last time once more set the tone for a poor round. Has plenty improvement to find to get competitive.

Form: 77009-0

Tapenade^p¹¹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: D N Russell| T: G Elliott

3/1

Drop in trip to 2m at Sligo last time brought a better outcome, though once more was unconvincing with the hurdling. Back up in distance here and should win races once getting the measure of the flights.

Form: 4568-74

West Of Milan⁶⁹

Age: 8| Weight: 11-12| J: A Ring| T: P Byrne

66/1

Back from a year's absence when tailed off 33-1 shot at Kilbeggan in this sphere in May. Will need to improve on anything done before to land the spoils.

Form: 3190/P-6

Ellipsism^t1⁷²

Age: 4| Weight: 11-5| J: S A Shortall| T: J P O'Brien

8/1

Has been beaten a long way in his three hurdles attempts so far. Did go off at 7-1 on his debut at Down Royal over the extended 2m trip but could only finish 10th of 20. Form has not improved since then. Needs to a lot more.

Form: 009

Wayfarer⁷²

Age: 4| Weight: 11-5| J: J J Slevin| T: J P O'Brien

6/1

Second runner for trainer Joseph O'Brien in this line-up. He's 0-3 over timber now having been tailed off at Tramore in May this sort of trip. Has to step up markedly to have a role.

Form: 700

Non-Runners

Repeat That¹⁰

Weight: 11-12| Age: 6

T: M Butler J: Richard Condon

Forecasts

Tapenade (3/1), Bythesametoken (4/1), Wayfarer (6/1), Table The Motion (7/1), Ellipsism (8/1), Lough Sewdy (9/1), Shedding (10/1), Kylebrogue (11/1), Cloudybackwest (20/1), Repeat That (33/1), West Of Milan (66/1)

These are an unconvincing lot on what they have achieved so far, enough to ensure that TAPENADE earns the call. His Sligo effort was better and, while that came over shorter, he should be fine over this trip and can land this with better jumping. Bythesametoken could be in the money while Wayfarer may have better in his locker than has been seen.