15:50 Cork

Wednesday 16 September 2020

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Mitchelstown Handicap

Off time: 15:50 | Winning time: 1m 42.26s

(8)

David Garrick^t¹⁸

Age: 3| Weight: 9-10| J: M A Gallagher| T: E P Harty| OR: 76| CD

3/1

C&D winner. Winner here in August. 10/3, below form fifth of 13 in handicap at Navan (8f, heavy) 18 days ago. Type to bounce back quickly.

Form: 724415

(2)

Vormir¹⁶

Age: 3| Weight: 9-10| J: Gavin Ryan⁽³⁾| T: F Birrane| OR: 76

11/1

Latest win at Roscommon in August. Bit below form fifth of 9 in handicap at Roscommon (7.2f, good to soft, 8/1) 16 days ago. Must improve.

Form: 003015

(3)

Paradiso^b⁵¹

Age: 3| Weight: 9-8| J: Seamie Heffernan| T: A P O'Brien| OR: 74

11/2

11/2, 13½ lengths tenth of 15 to Talking Tough in handicap at Galway (7f, soft) 51 days ago. Risky proposition at present.

Form: 3-55300

(6)

Talking Tough¹⁴

Age: 3| Weight: 9-7| J: Gary Carroll| T: M Mulvany| OR: 73

22/1

Latest win at Galway in July. 18/1, eleventh of 12 in handicap at Gowran (7f, soft) 14 days ago.

Form: 910590

(5)

Chasing The Dawn³²

Age: 3| Weight: 9-6| J: C P Hoban| T: Mrs J Harrington| OR: 72

18/1

Form: 423-069

(1)

Mccabe^p,t¹⁴

Age: 3| Weight: 9-4| J: K J Manning| T: J S Bolger| OR: 70

17/2

Eighth of 11 in handicap (10/1) at Gowran (9.5f, soft) 14 days ago. Cheekpieces back on. Others more persuasive.

Form: 09-9958

(10)

Shona Mea²⁷

Age: 3| Weight: 9-4| J: T P Madden| T: Mrs J Harrington| OR: 70| D

6/1

2 wins from 5 runs this year. Latest win at Leopardstown in July. Sixth of 8 in handicap at Leopardstown (10f, heavy, 4/1) 27 days ago. Merits consideration back down in trip.

Form: 0-12136

(7)

Petticoat Rule^v⁷

Age: 3| Weight: 9-0| J: Billy Lee| T: W McCreery| OR: 66| C

9/4

Lightly-raced winner. Visored for 1st time, career best when winning 14-runner handicap (4/1) at this course (7f, good to firm) 7 days ago, just holding on. Yard in good form. Should go well again.

Form: 77791

(9)

Law Breaker^b³¹

Age: 3| Weight: 8-9| J: Chris Hayes| T: E J O'Grady| OR: 61

40/1

50/1, last of 12 in handicap at this course (6.4f, heavy) 31 days ago. Up in trip.

Form: 178-980

(11)

Shabra's O B^p⁶⁹

Age: 3| Weight: 8-6| J: Nicole Smyth⁽¹⁰⁾| T: A McCann| OR: 53

66/1

Blinkered for 1st time, last of 10 in handicap at Navan (5.8f, soft, 50/1) 69 days ago. Significantly back up in trip.

Form: 760-700

Non-Runners

(14)

Zofar Zogood¹³

Weight: 10-3| Age: 3

T: J P O'Brien J: Declan McDonogh

(4)

Celtic Crown⁵¹

Weight: 9-6| Age: 3

T: J J Murphy J: Robbie Colgan

(12)

Hieroglyphic³⁹

Weight: 9-6| Age: 3

T: M Halford J: Ronan Whelan

(13)

Rockview Empress¹

Weight: 8-8| Age: 3

T: J C McConnell J: Siobhan Rutledge

Forecasts

Petticoat Rule (9/4), David Garrick (3/1), Rockview Empress (7/2), Zofar Zogood (4/1), Paradiso (11/2), Shona Mea (6/1), Mccabe (17/2), Vormir (11/1), Celtic Crown (14/1), Chasing The Dawn (18/1), Hieroglyphic (20/1), Talking Tough (22/1), Law Breaker (40/1), Shabra's O B (66/1)

ZOFAR ZOGOOD keeps knocking at the door and drops into a slightly lesser grade of handicap with blinkers on for the first time, so might well have enough class to open her account at the likely expense of Rockview Empress and Petticoat Rule.