13:00 Killarney

Sunday 2 October 2022

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Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Maiden Hurdle

Off time: 13:00 | Winning time: 3m 57.80s

Fons Vivus¹³

Age: 6| Weight: 11-7| J: M J M O'Sullivan⁽⁷⁾| T: Padraig Butler

25/1

Lightly-raced winner under NH rules. 80/1, tenth of 16 in minor event hurdle at Listowel (20f, good) 13 days ago.

Form: 311PP-0

Costaweefortune⁸⁰

Age: 6| Weight: 10-13| J: Gary Noonan⁽⁷⁾| T: Ian O'Connor

150/1

Thrice-raced maiden under Rules. 200/1, last of 6 in minor event hurdle at this course (20f, good) 80 days ago.

Form: 406

Glorious Singer^p²⁰³

Age: 7| Weight: 10-13| J: Mr A T Feeney⁽⁷⁾| T: Ms Alice Curran| OR: 92

11/1

Modest hurdler. Remains a maiden after 8 hurdle runs. Cheekpieces on for 1st time, good second of 8 in novice hurdle at Limerick (24f, heavy, 33/1). Off 6 months. Down in trip.

Form: 675/F92-

Kilbarry Lilac⁴⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 10-13| J: Mike O'Connor⁽⁵⁾| T: C O'Keeffe

20/1

Thrice-raced maiden. 9/2, sixth of 12 in bumper at Tramore (16f, good) 49 days ago. Makes hurdles debut.

Form: 2-46

Still Ciel⁶²

Age: 5| Weight: 10-13| J: Darragh O'Keeffe| T: H De Bromhead

13/8

Promising individual. 12/1, second of 19 in novice hurdle at Cork (17f, good to soft) 62 days ago, clear of rest. Should improve and she looks set to play a leading role.

Form: 1-7B2

Bella Scintilla¹⁷⁹

Age: 4| Weight: 10-12| J: J J Slevin| T: J P O'Brien

4/5

Fairly useful hurdler/chaser in France. Second of 6 in minor event chase at Compiegne (19.4f, soft, 52/10) 179 days ago. Switches from chase to hurdles on debut for new yard and obvious claims.

Form: 2332P2-

Lovango⁵⁵

Age: 4| Weight: 10-12| J: Simon Torrens| T: Miss D O'Shea

200/1

Once-raced maiden. Last of 11 in novice hurdle at Ballinrobe (16.6f, good, 80/1) on NH debut 55 days ago.

Form: 0

Non-Runners

Ladys Spirit⁷⁹

Weight: 10-13| Age: 5

T: T O'Brien J: Phillip Enright

Morning Dew¹⁵

Weight: 10-13| Age: 6

T: A Kinirons J: L P Dempsey

Forecasts

Bella Scintilla (4/5), Still Ciel (13/8), Glorious Singer (11/1), Kilbarry Lilac (20/1), Fons Vivus (25/1), Ladys Spirit (33/1), Morning Dew (50/1), Costaweefortune (150/1), Lovango (200/1)

The main protagonists in this maiden are BELLA SCINTILLA and Still Ciel. The former showed plenty of ability in this sphere and over fences in France for previous connections and she is taken to make a winning start for the bang in-form Joseph O'Brien yard. Still Ciel chased home a decent mare at Cork last time and there's almost certainly better to come from her, so she should pick up a race sooner rather than later. Glorious Singer is the pick of the remainder.