19:05 Kilbeggan

Saturday 10 August 2019

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Off time: 19:05 | Winning time: 4m 48.80s

Jack Hackett⁶

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: P E Corbett| T: Mrs D A Love

3/1

Winner of a Cork bumper in April before a 35L defeat on hurdling introduction over 3m in a Cork maiden in May. Improved effort would not surprise.

Form: 2811-44

Guiri³²¹

Age: 4| Weight: 11-7| J: J S McGarvey| T: Mrs J Harrington

10/11

First-run gelded son of Motivator out of a Monsun mare. Won on final Flat start in Germany last September for trainer J-P Carvalho. Likely to be a warm order in this company.

Form:

Liars Corner^t¹⁵

Age: 4| Weight: 11-7| J: P J McGrath⁽⁷⁾| T: J C McConnell

33/1

Well held on both hurdle starts to date before a couple of below-par efforts on the Flat in June and July. Others preferred.

Form: 70

Cats Pajamas²⁷⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-4| J: P J Cawley⁽⁷⁾| T: P J Hayes

50/1

Haateef gelding out of a One Cool Cat mare. Dam, twice raced over hurdles, sprint winner who stayed 1m1f on the Flat. Failed to complete in two point-to-point starts last year. Easy to dismiss.

Form: PP-

De Grey Mink²²

Age: 5| Weight: 11-4| J: John J Fitzpatrick⁽⁷⁾| T: S Hanlon

66/1

Tikkanen gelding. Full-brother to 2m6f-3m2f chase winner and a half-brother to a 2m6f-3m jump winner. Tailed off on debut maiden hurdle run at Kilbeggan last month.

Form: 0

Lough Sewdy¹⁶

Age: 6| Weight: 11-4| J: R P Treacy⁽⁵⁾| T: S Fahey| OR: 94

20/1

Hints of improvement on third and most recent hurdle start at Limerick over 2m4f last month finishing fifth of 10 beaten 9L on good ground. More needed again.

Form: 65065

Pat Coyne⁶⁴

Age: 5| Weight: 11-4| J: Darragh O'Keeffe⁽⁵⁾| T: J W Nicholson| OR: 94

8/1

Five-race maiden who is yet to get near the frame on any of his starts to date Difficult to see where improvement is coming from.

Form: P06-607

Stormy Master^p1²⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-4| J: D J McInerney| T: R Hackett

20/1

Three-race maiden well held on hurdling debut at Cork last month and first time cheekpieces unlikely to bring about the required amount of progression needed to land a blow here.

Form: 759

Summer Hill¹⁸

Age: 6| Weight: 11-4| J: Liam Quinlan⁽⁷⁾| T: J P Ryan| OR: 104

9/2

Improved performance on his ninth start over hurdles finishing second of five at Ballinrobe last month beaten 2¾L in a career best effort. Needs to maintain momentum here.

Form: 395762

Forecasts

Guiri (10/11), Jack Hackett (3/1), Summer Hill (9/2), Pat Coyne (8/1), Lough Sewdy (20/1), Stormy Master (20/1), Liars Corner (33/1), Cats Pajamas (50/1), De Grey Mink (66/1)

Given the inexperience or inconsistency of a number of runners here its hard to get away from the chances of the Jessica Harrington-trained GUIRI on debut. The J P McManus-owned gelding can hold off any potential challenge coming from bumper distance winner, Jack Hackett and the J P Ryan-trained Summer Hill.