Winning Fair Juvenile Hurdle (Grade 3)

Off time: 13:25 | Winning time: 3m 59.2s

Bottler'secret¹³³

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Sean Flanagan| T: G P Cromwell| C

6/5

Quickly developed into a useful Flat performer for Ciaran Murphy, winning 7-runner handicap at this course (10.5f, heavy, 14/1) when last seen in October. Interesting recruit to hurdles but this is a tough starting point.

Form:

Churchwarden²¹

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: B W Harvey| T: J C McConnell

10/1

Fair maiden on the Flat. Twice-raced maiden. 16 lengths fifth of 8 to Liari in juvenile hurdle at Musselburgh (15.6f, good to soft, 16/1) 21 days ago.

Form: 25

Pacini^p1¹⁵

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Sam Ewing| T: G Elliott| OR: 118| D

5/2

Lightly-raced winner over hurdles. 11/4, third of 5 in juvenile hurdle at this course (15.8f, heavy) 15 days ago. Cheekpieces on 1st time.

Form: 5413

Trustyourinstinct^h⁴³

Age: 4| Weight: 11-0| J: Simon Torrens| T: J P O'Brien

11/4

Useful winner at 10f on flat. Hooded for 1st time, fourth of 7 in juvenile (7/1) at Fairyhouse (16f, soft) on hurdle debut 43 days ago. Open to improvement.

Form: 4

Non-Runners

Wodhooh²⁹

Weight: 11-0| Age: 4

T: G Elliott J: Jordan Gainford

Forecasts

Wodhooh (4/6), Bottler'secret (6/5), Pacini (5/2), Trustyourinstinct (11/4), Churchwarden (10/1)

WODHOOH looks a real professional and can take the step up to Graded level in her stride and stretch her unbeaten hurdle record to 6. Trustyourinstinct is open to progress on the back of his Fairyhouse hurdle debut fourth and may give the selection more to do than her stablemate Pacini.