17:15 Musselburgh
Friday 26 March 2021
All13:5514:3015:0515:4016:1016:4517:15
Irish Thoroughbred Marketing, Gateway To Champions Mares' Intermediate Open NH Flat Race
- 4YO to 6YO  |  Class 4  |  2m 85y  |  Good to Soft (Good in places)  |  6 Runners  |  Turf  |   Weighed In
- Off time: 17:15Â Â |Â Â Winning time: 3m 58.81s
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Odds
Star rating
Horse A-Z
Show odds
Left debut form well behind when runner-up at 40/1 in an AW bumper at Newcastle but failed to back it up at the same track last time. Obvious claims if back on song.
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Shirocco mare. Half-sister to fair hurdler Drifting Back. Dam (h106), 27f hurdle winner, half-sister to (stays 19f) Fionn Mac Cul and (stays 21f) Dark Episode (both fairly useful hurdlers).Wears hood.
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No show in a trio of bumpers to this point, so easily opposed.
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From a yard which is no stranger to bumper success and upped her form when second at Sedgefield late last year. Could do with another step forward to land this.
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Achieved nothing in a couple of bumpers 15 months apart, so hard to envisage her taking a hand in this.
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Cheap purchase who was well fancied but shaped like a non-stayer when fourth at Carlisle last month. This lesser test should suit, so could improve.
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Non-Runners
1
Pop The Champagne21
Weight: 11-5|Â Â Age: 5
T: D Killahena & G McPherson  J: Max Kendrick
NR
Forecasts
Roxanya (1/1), Pop The Champagne (7/4), Gazwah (9/4), Bella Bluesky (6/1), Memors (9/1), Stone Crossing (40/1), Milly On Air (50/1)
POP THE CHAMPAGNE came from further back than ideal to make a winning start at Lingfield and, having been far from discredited at Newbury since, she's fancied to double her tally back against weaker opposition. The Stuart Crawford-trained pair of Roxanya and Gazwah look the chief threats.
- POP THE CHAMPAGNE (FR)
- GAZWAH (FR)
- ROXANYA (IRE)
Prize Money
1st: £3,249.002nd: £954.003rd: £477.004th: £238.00
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