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Saturday 21 October 2023

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Bluegrass Horse Feeds Handicap Hurdle (80-109)

Off time: 14:41 | Winning time: 4m 20.5s

It'sallabouteve¹⁴⁹

Age: 7| Weight: 12-0| J: Phillip Enright| T: Brendan Walsh| OR: 108| CD

9/1

C&D winner. Pulled up in novice chase (7/1) at this course (19.7f, good to soft) on debut over fences 149 days ago, pulled up before next. Switches from chase to hurdles.

Form: 4240-6P

Spring Meadow^t³³

Age: 6| Weight: 11-13| J: R P Treacy| T: E McNamara| OR: 107

10/1

11/1 and tongue strap on for 1st time, first run since leaving Nigel Twiston-Davies when eleventh of 13 in handicap hurdle at Listowel (20f, soft) 33 days ago.

Form: 53P44-0

Hard Rain²⁴

Age: 8| Weight: 11-10| J: J J Slevin| T: Padraig Butler| OR: 104| C

4/1

4/1, creditable third of 6 in novice chase at Sligo (21.2f, heavy) 24 days ago. Switches from chase to hurdles. Back down in trip. Player.

Form: P41P23

Derridae^p¹⁰

Age: 8| Weight: 11-7| J: Jordan Gainford| T: M McCabe| OR: 101| CD

18/1

C&D winner. Ninth of 10 in handicap hurdle at Punchestown (16.2f, good to soft, 22/1) 10 days ago. Cheekpieces back on.

Form: 0/122P-9

Miss Pronunciation^h,t²⁶⁸

Age: 6| Weight: 11-6| J: Mark Walsh| T: P Roche| OR: 100

9/2

Lightly-raced maiden. 28/1, below form twelfth of 20 in handicap hurdle at Gowran (16f, heavy). Off 8 months. Tongue strap back on. Should improve.

Form: 63/50-

Cosmic Rock⁷⁵⁶

Age: 9| Weight: 11-5| J: T Joseph Kelly⁽⁷⁾| T: E McCarthy| OR: 99| CD

20/1

C&D winner. Career best when winning 17-runner handicap hurdle at Listowel (20f, good, 10/1), driven out. Off over 2 years.

Form: 5P6181/

Dark Image^t²⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 11-3| J: R Deegan| T: E McCarthy| OR: 97| CD

22/1

33/1, creditable eighth of 15 in novice hurdle at Killarney (17f, good to soft) 20 days ago. Makes handicap hurdle debut. Open to improvement.

Form: 45P888

Innellan Shore³⁷⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Carl Millar⁽⁷⁾| T: G Elliott| OR: 94

18/1

Below form eighth of 14 in handicap hurdle at Downpatrick (17.8f, good to soft, 20/1). Off 12 months.

Form: 465588-

Everystep Oftheway¹⁷²

Age: 5| Weight: 10-13| J: Gavin Brouder⁽⁵⁾| T: O McKiernan| OR: 93

13/2

6/1 and cheekpieces on for 1st time, below form eighth of 15 in handicap hurdle at Ballinrobe (21.1f, good to soft) 172 days ago. Down in trip. Looks competitive on form.

Form: 70703-8

Young Fitzy^t¹⁸

Age: 8| Weight: 10-13| J: Darragh O'Keeffe| T: N Lee| OR: 93| D

17/2

Twelve runs since last win in 2022. 7/2, below form sixth of 11 in handicap hurdle at Galway (16.7f, heavy) 18 days ago, unable to sustain effort. Tongue strap back on.

Form: 0664-66

Black Vega^t1²⁸

Age: 4| Weight: 10-8| J: Mr P W Gleeson⁽⁷⁾| T: J F Gleeson| OR: 89

50/1

Lightly-raced maiden under NH rules. Fourteenth of 16 in novice hurdle at Listowel (16f, soft, 200/1) 28 days ago. Tongue strap on 1st time. Makes handicap hurdle debut.

Form: 0900

Go Gill Go^t²⁶

Age: 8| Weight: 10-8| J: Conor Clarke⁽⁷⁾| T: J Grace| OR: 88

6/1

One win from 22 NH runs. Eighteen runs since last win in 2021. 12/1, shaped as if needing run when seventh of 12 in handicap hurdle at Roscommon (15.9f, soft) 26 days ago. Shortlist material.

Form: 4053-97

Fly De Megaudais^p²³

Age: 10| Weight: 10-0| J: Sean O'Keeffe| T: M J McDonagh| OR: 80

25/1

Fifteen runs since last win in 2022. Respectable sixth of 11 in handicap chase at Clonmel (18.2f, heavy, 22/1) 23 days ago. Switches from chase to hurdles.

Form: 3PPP46

Ventnor¹⁶³

Age: 7| Weight: 10-0| J: K Callaghan⁽⁵⁾| T: J Barcoe| OR: 80

25/1

Remains a maiden after 20 NH runs. 6/1, pulled up in handicap hurdle at Clonmel (19.1f, soft) 163 days ago, tailed off when pulled up before 2 out.

Form: 29630-P

Non-Runners

Rushford²⁹

Weight: 11-8| Age: 4

T: T R Hughes J: M J M O'Sullivan

Forecasts

Hard Rain (4/1), Miss Pronunciation (9/2), Go Gill Go (6/1), Everystep Oftheway (13/2), Young Fitzy (17/2), It'sallabouteve (9/1), Spring Meadow (10/1), Rushford (12/1), Derridae (18/1), Innellan Shore (18/1), Cosmic Rock (20/1), Dark Image (22/1), Fly De Megaudais (25/1), Ventnor (25/1), Black Vega (50/1)

GO GILL GO shaped as if needing the run at Roscommon last month so she could be worth chancing off a career-low mark. Hard Rain is feared most ahead of Everystep Oftheway.