14:15 Thurles

Saturday 20 March 2021

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Adare Manor Opportunity Maiden Hurdle

Off time: 14:15 | Winning time: 4m 17.2s

Colonel Slade^t⁶⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr J C Canavan⁽⁴⁾| T: R J Tierney

300/1

Fair Flat winner but well held in maiden hurdles, shaping like a non-stayer last time.

Form: 00

Dalileo⁸⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 12-0| J: Shane Fenelon⁽⁴⁾| T: R O'Neill| D

80/1

Fairly useful Flat winner but well beaten both starts over hurdles.

Form: 90

Sheshoon Sonny^t¹⁶

Age: 6| Weight: 12-0| J: Simon Torrens| T: Stephen Gerard Carey| OR: 111| D

4/1

Fair maiden hurdler for Alan King who was in the process of running creditably when departing 3 out in maiden chase at Clonmel (20f) 16 days ago, too far out to suggest outcome.

Form: 23-304F

Betty Zane^h,t⁶

Age: 7| Weight: 11-7| J: P J Cawley⁽⁴⁾| T: Ciaran Murphy| D

10/3

Fair bumper winner who starts out over hurdles in a thin race, so must enter calculations.

Form: 0-6195

Rambling Rose¹³⁵

Age: 6| Weight: 11-7| J: Liam Quinlan⁽²⁾| T: S Ryan

15/2

Fair winner at 18f in bumpers. Ran below that level sent hurdling at this course in November, but she's entitled to progress.

Form: 7-157

Royal Gift³⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-7| J: J G Gilligan⁽⁴⁾| T: P J Gilligan

40/1

Fair Flat winner but sold for just 800 gns and unsurprisingly made an unpromising start to hurdling career after 12 months off at Punchestown 34 days ago.

Form: P

Along Long Story¹¹¹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-6| J: A McCurtin| T: D Queally

50/1

€2,000 3-y-o, Morozov gelding. Dam, once-raced bumper/hurdler, half-sister to bumper winner/useful hurdler (stayed 3m) Mendo. Pulled up in point on debut, Nov 29.

Form: P

Attoe¹¹¹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-6| J: B J Foley| T: S Spillane

50/1

€7,000 3-y-o, Morozov gelding. Dam unraced. Pulled up in point on debut, Nov 29.

Form: P

Banks Boy

Age: 5| Weight: 11-6| J: Jordan Gainford⁽⁴⁾| T: Mrs D Foster

2/1

Getaway gelding. Half-brother to fairly useful 2¼m hurdle winner Floral Fantasy. Interesting newcomer in a weak race.

Form:

Fill The Tank¹⁹

Age: 7| Weight: 11-6| J: S E Lewis⁽⁴⁾| T: Aengus King

11/1

Modest chaser/hurdler who wasn't disgraced after 3 months off in Punchestown maiden hurdle 19 days ago.

Form: 466375

Krabat^h1⁶

Age: 6| Weight: 11-6| J: B Browne| T: M J McDonagh

11/2

Twice-raced maiden. Eighth of 16 in maiden hurdle at Naas (19f, heavy, 8/1) 6 days ago. Solid claims if bouncing back to hurdling debut form in first-time hood.

Form: F38

Ballybeatnik⁶³

Age: 6| Weight: 10-13| J: S A Mulcahy⁽⁴⁾| T: D Hogan

28/1

Well held all 3 starts in mares maiden hurdles, off 3 months prior to latest (when tongue tied).

Form: 5-79

Bealnablath¹⁴

Age: 5| Weight: 10-13| J: J P O'Sullivan⁽²⁾| T: Robert Widger

80/1

Well beaten in 2m Navan maiden hurdle on NH debut 14 days ago.

Form: 0

Queen Emily^h⁶⁷⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 10-13| J: T Ryan⁽²⁾| T: Mrs S Dawson

80/1

Well held in Flat maiden/seller (showed temperament in latter) in 2019. An unlikely sort.

Form:

Ronnoco Katie¹⁰⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 10-13| J: Richard Condon⁽⁴⁾| T: R A Cotter

250/1

No form in trio of maiden hurdles.

Form: P-00

Sofias Castle⁷

Age: 7| Weight: 10-13| J: R Deegan⁽²⁾| T: J Dullea

50/1

Dual point winner but was well held on Navan hurdling debut last week.

Form: 32-P1P0

Non-Runners

Runaway Gun¹⁸

Weight: 10-13| Age: 5

T: L J Archdeacon J: Reserve 1

Chitchat Sally⁸

Weight: 10-13| Age: 5

T: C O'Keeffe J: Reserve 2

Bothar Tara

Weight: 10-13| Age: 5

T: S G Walsh J: Reserve 3

Forecasts

Banks Boy (2/1), Betty Zane (10/3), Sheshoon Sonny (4/1), Krabat (11/2), Chitchat Sally (6/1), Rambling Rose (15/2), Fill The Tank (11/1), Runaway Gun (25/1), Ballybeatnik (28/1), Bothar Tara (33/1), Royal Gift (40/1), Attoe (50/1), Along Long Story (50/1), Sofias Castle (50/1), Bealnablath (80/1), Queen Emily (80/1), Dalileo (80/1), Ronnoco Katie (250/1), Colonel Slade (300/1)

Hardly a deep maiden and the well-bred BANKS BOY may be up to the job on debut. Of the opposition, Krabat has decent claims if bouncing back to his hurdling debut form in a first-time hood, while bumper-winner Rambling Rose is entitled to build on her opening effort in this sphere returning from a break.