BoyleSports Novice Hurdle (Grade 3)

Off time: 15:05 | Winning time: 3m 48.01s

Gaucher^h,t¹¹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-1| J: Paul Townend| T: W P Mullins| OR: 132| BF

11/10

Lightly-raced winner over hurdles. Successful at Punchestown in June. 5/6, creditable second of 5 in novice hurdle at Listowel (16f, soft) 11 days ago. Expected to be bang there.

Form: 4-2142

Sunchart⁵⁸

Age: 7| Weight: 11-1| J: Cian Quirke| T: A Slattery| C

7/4

Lightly-raced winner over hurdles. 11/10, didn't need to improve to win 14-runner novice hurdle at Wexford (16.7f, good to soft) 58 days ago, kept up to work. This is more demanding.

Form: 43/21

Ah Fuhgeddaboudit²³

Age: 6| Weight: 10-8| J: D King| T: D Hogan| OR: 105

20/1

Fair hurdler. 1 win from 2 runs this season. 5/1, won 15-runner novice hurdle at Ballinrobe (17.9f, good) 23 days ago, always holding on. Much more on her plate this time.

Form: 5834-21

Littlebiggie^h⁴³

Age: 7| Weight: 10-8| J: Liam Quinlan| T: R Hackett| OR: 123| BF

7/2

Fairly useful hurdler. Creditable second of 13 in handicap hurdle (4/1) at Killarney (22.4f, good to soft) 43 days ago. Down in trip and she should get her head back in front sooner rather than later.

Form: 23-1222

Non-Runners

Feud⁶⁹

Weight: 11-4| Age: 4

T: R O'Brien J: D E Mullins

Chart Topper⁴¹

Weight: 11-1| Age: 5

T: W P Mullins J: Mr P W Mullins

Forecasts

Gaucher (11/10), Chart Topper (13/8), Sunchart (7/4), Littlebiggie (7/2), Feud (4/1), Ah Fuhgeddaboudit (20/1)

FEUD has taken extremely well to hurdles and is taken to make it 3-3 in this sphere, with the Willie Mullins-trained duo Chart Topper and Gaucher feared most in that order of preference. Littlebiggie perhaps lacks the potential of some of these but she looks solid nonetheless and should make her presence felt.