13:30 Galway

Sunday 27 October 2024

All12:5513:3014:0514:3515:0815:4316:1316:43

Irish Stallion Farms EBF Beginners Chase

Off time: 13:30 | Winning time: 5m 59.50s

Arion Soldier²⁰⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: Ricky Doyle| T: Eamon Courtney

28/1

Lightly-raced winner over hurdles. Fair winner at 24f over hurdles. Career best when winning 10-runner novice hurdle at Cork (24.4f, heavy, 14/1). Off 6 months. Makes chase debut.

Form: 0831-

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He's Home Again²¹⁰

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: Philip Byrnes| T: E Cawley

100/1

Fair hurdler. Career best when winning 7-runner handicap hurdle (6/1) at Cork (24.4f, heavy), plenty in hand. Off 7 months. Makes chase debut.

Form: 86P2P1-

Hillsdale^h¹⁵⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: E Walsh| T: J P Dempsey| BF

125/1

Fair hurdler. Winner in hurdle at Naas in March. Bit below form seventh of 17 in handicap hurdle at Punchestown (16f, good to soft, 9/2) 159 days ago. Makes chase debut. Significantly up in trip.

Form: 53810-7

Ik's Man^t⁵⁵⁰

Age: 8| Weight: 11-12| J: John Shinnick⁽⁵⁾| T: T O'Brien

66/1

Fair hurdler. Blinkered for 1st time, pulled up in minor event hurdle at Punchestown (19.8f, good to soft, 66/1), tailed off when pulled up early in straight. Off 18 months. Makes chase debut.

Form: 62452P/

Maxi Mac Gold^p1,t²²

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Sean O'Keeffe| T: P Nolan

16/1

Fairly useful hurdler. Fairly useful winner at 25f over hurdles. Third of 5 in novice chase at Gowran (20f, good to firm, 3/1) on debut over fences 22 days ago. Cheekpieces on for 1st time.

Form: 233-143

Mint Boy²¹¹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: Keith Donoghue| T: G P Cromwell

4/1

Useful hurdler. Latest win in hurdle at Fairyhouse in January. 14/1, bit below form seventh of 13 in handicap hurdle at Fairyhouse (23.8f, heavy). Off 7 months. Makes chase debut.

Form: 9/15217-

Sa Majeste¹⁸³

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: Mark Walsh| T: W P Mullins

2/1

Useful hurdler. Useful winner at 20f over hurdles. Respectable sixth of 17 in handicap hurdle at Sandown (19.8f, good, 5/1), unsuited by way race developed. Off 6 months. Makes chase debut.

Form: 316/10-6

Search For Glory^p,t²²⁶

Age: 7| Weight: 11-12| J: Sam Ewing| T: G Elliott| C

11/4

Useful hurdler. 22/1 and blinkered for 1st time, creditable 17¾ lengths seventh of 13 to Stellar Story in Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle (Spa) at Cheltenham (24f, heavy). Makes chase debut.

Form: 131417-

Sequestered¹⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: J G Gilligan⁽⁵⁾| T: P J Gilligan| C

16/1

Useful hurdler. Useful winner at 21f over hurdles. Eighth of 9 in novice chase (8/1) at this course (18.2f, good to soft) on debut over fences 19 days ago. Back up in trip.

Form: 64090-8

Sir Argus⁴⁵¹

Age: 7| Weight: 11-12| J: Brian Hayes| T: W P Mullins

5/1

Promising sort. Latest win in hurdle at Cork in April 2023. Second of 6 in novice chase (11/4) at this C&D (good to soft) on debut over fences. Off 15 months. Entitled to progress over fences.

Form: F2213/2-

West Is Awake^h¹⁵³

Age: 8| Weight: 11-12| J: Kieren Buckley| T: E Cawley

40/1

Fairly useful hurdler. Fell in handicap hurdle at Ballinrobe (22.6f, good, 10/1) 153 days ago. Makes chase debut.

Form: 10625-F

Pitwood Road^b¹⁶⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 11-5| J: M J M O'Sullivan| T: T O'Brien| BF

22/1

Fair hurdler. Fair winner at 17f over hurdles. 7/2, pulled up in handicap hurdle at Killarney (20.2f, good to soft) 167 days ago, pulled up before 2 out. Makes chase debut.

Form: 26121-P

Forecasts

Sa Majeste (2/1), Search For Glory (11/4), Mint Boy (4/1), Sir Argus (5/1), Sequestered (16/1), Maxi Mac Gold (16/1), Pitwood Road (22/1), Arion Soldier (28/1), West Is Awake (40/1), Ik's Man (66/1), He's Home Again (100/1), Hillsdale (125/1)

Useful hurdler SEARCH FOR GLORY promises to make an even better chaser so he gets the nod over fellow chase debutants Sa Majeste and Mint Boy, who were also useful over timber.