O'Neill's Bar Beginners Chase

Off time: 17:50 | Winning time: 5m 31.8s

Clifftop⁸

Age: 8| Weight: 11-12| J: Kieren Buckley| T: H Rogers| OR: 114

7/4

Fairly useful chaser. 15/2, creditable second of 8 in novice chase at Wexford (19.6f, good to soft) 8 days ago. Sound claims with a repeat.

Form: 35-3422

Just Three¹⁴

Age: 7| Weight: 11-12| J: J G Gilligan⁽⁷⁾| T: P J Gilligan

22/1

Fair hurdler. Unseated rider in novice chase at Galway (22.5f, good to soft, 80/1) 14 days ago, unseating at the fourth when close up. Likely best watched here.

Form: 38-685U

Riggs^b1²²

Age: 9| Weight: 11-12| J: Donagh Meyler| T: P Cluskey

150/1

One win from 29 NH runs. Pulled up in novice chase at Wexford (19.4f, soft, 125/1) 22 days ago, labouring from circuit out. Blinkered for 1st time but he's very hard to recommend.

Form: 7/48P-PP

Idol³⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-5| J: Phillip Enright| T: S Curling

7/2

Fair hurdler. Respectable fifth of 15 in handicap hurdle at Kilbeggan (19.3f, good to soft, 25/1) 34 days ago. Switches from hurdles to chase and work to do on what she's achieved in this sphere to date.

Form: 0-5U4U5

Killinure Lass¹⁷

Age: 7| Weight: 11-5| J: Keith Donoghue| T: J P Dempsey| OR: 96

3/1

Fair winner over hurdles (stays 24.5f) and some promise to glean from yard/chase debut fourth at Tipperary early on last month. Below best back over timber at Galway 17 days ago and handicaps back over further will suit her moving forward in this sphere.

Form: 4P61-40

Mag Dillane¹⁴⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-5| J: C P McNamara| T: E McNamara

16/1

Fair hurdler off the mark at Limerick (2m) in January. Ninth of 12 in handicap hurdle (13/2) at Limerick (16.2f, heavy) 144 days ago. Makes chase debut. Significantly up in trip.

Form: 280519-

Moon Rise Beauty^t¹⁷

Age: 7| Weight: 11-5| J: Paul Townend| T: W P Mullins

9/2

Fair bumper/hurdles winner who proved easy to back and shaped as if better for the run after 11 months off when eleventh of 20 in handicap hurdle at Galway (16.6f) 17 days ago. Represents top stable and probably capable of better now sent chasing.

Form: 7/2185-0

Forecasts

Clifftop (7/4), Killinure Lass (3/1), Idol (7/2), Moon Rise Beauty (9/2), Mag Dillane (16/1), Just Three (22/1), Riggs (150/1)

CLIFFTOP has displayed more than enough in a handful of chase tries to think a race of this nature is within reach and he looks to hold sound claims back at this slightly longer trip. Moon Rise Beauty on chase debut and Killinure Lass can provide the chief threats, in that order.