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Wednesday 1 January 2025

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ITM Irish Stallion Trail 10th - 11th January Maiden Hurdle

Off time: 12:40 | Winning time: 5m 17.4s

Champagne Kid⁹⁸

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: Patrick M O'Brien⁽⁷⁾| T: P E Collins| D

11/2

Fair useful form when winner of bumper at Listowel in September. Worthy of respect on hurdling bow.

Form: 52-51

Cocovic^h1²²⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: C P McNamara| T: E McNamara

22/1

€25,000 4-y-o, Ocovango gelding. Dam, placed in points, sister to fairly useful hurdler/useful chaser (stayed 3m) Toby Lerone. Wears hood. Won second start in points in May and can't be completely ruled out.

Form: 41

Come Walk With Me²⁵

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: Keith Donoghue| T: E Cawley

17/2

Once-raced maiden. Fifth of 25 in novice hurdle at Navan (16f, soft, 150/1) on NH debut 25 days ago. Up in trip. May improve.

Form: 5

Dromineer Smurphy^t²⁴⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Jack Kearney⁽³⁾| T: C Collins

100/1

Twice-raced maiden. 50/1, eighteenth of 19 in novice hurdle at Down Royal (16.8f, good to soft). Off 8 months.

Form: 3-0

General Glea³²

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: Kieren Buckley| T: T Gibney

80/1

Once-raced maiden. 100/1, eighth of 10 in bumper at this course (16f, good) on NH debut 32 days ago. Makes hurdles debut. Up in trip. Yard in good form.

Form: 8

Mister Frostie^t1³⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: K C Sexton| T: C A McBratney

150/1

Twice-raced maiden. Last of 8 in bumper (200/1) at Punchestown (16.7f, soft) 39 days ago. Makes hurdles debut. Tongue strap on for 1st time.

Form: 0-8

Roxboro River²⁰

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: P Hanlon⁽⁷⁾| T: Miss T L Cogan

66/1

Once-raced maiden. 50/1, fifth of 11 in novice hurdle at Warwick (21f, soft) on NH debut 20 days ago.

Form: 635

Sounds Victorius⁴⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: Paul Townend| T: W P Mullins| BF

4/11

Well above average in bumpers and showed aptitude for hurdling when runner-up at Punchestown 47 days ago. Should have enough to go one better.

Form: 2144-2

Supreme Ruler²²

Age: 6| Weight: 11-12| J: Sean Flanagan| T: B Connell

5/1

Promising sort. Excellent seventh of 19 in novice hurdle (14/1) at Punchestown (19.1f, soft) 22 days ago. Should improve.

Form: 3-337

Glenetty¹⁶

Age: 8| Weight: 11-5| J: J Smith⁽⁵⁾| T: C O'Connell

100/1

Lightly-raced maiden under NH rules. Tenth of 14 in novice hurdle at Naas (19.5f, good to soft, 66/1) on hurdles bow 16 days ago.

Form: 553240

Johanna'sjean

Age: 6| Weight: 11-5| J: Carl Millar⁽⁵⁾| T: Thomas Coyle

100/1

Diamond Boy mare. Half-sister to 4 winners, including useful hurdler Black Kit and useful hurdler/chaser Politikar. Dam useful German 1m-11f winner.

Form:

Patty O'Farrell^h1³¹

Age: 7| Weight: 11-5| J: Sean O'Keeffe| T: P Maher

100/1

Policy Maker mare. Dam (h90), point winner, maiden under Rules. Wears hood. Pulled up sole start in points (Dec 1).

Form: P

Non-Runners

Grimaud²⁵

Weight: 11-12| Age: 5

T: G Elliott J: Sam Ewing

Los Blanco²⁴⁸

Weight: 11-12| Age: 6

T: H De Bromhead J: Darragh O'Keeffe

Lovely Hurling²¹⁷

Weight: 11-12| Age: 6

T: Colm Murphy J: Mark Walsh

Johanna Whitty¹⁹

Weight: 11-5| Age: 5

T: J S Bolger J: Donagh Meyler

Forecasts

Sounds Victorius (4/11), Lovely Hurling (4/1), Supreme Ruler (5/1), Champagne Kid (11/2), Grimaud (6/1), Los Blanco (7/1), Come Walk With Me (17/2), Cocovic (22/1), Johanna Whitty (25/1), Roxboro River (66/1), General Glea (80/1), Glenetty (100/1), Johanna'sjean (100/1), Patty O'Farrell (100/1), Dromineer Smurphy (100/1), Mister Frostie (150/1)

SOUNDS VICTORIUS and Lovely Hurling have both shown talent in bumpers and are open to improvement in this discipline, so they might well fight this out with the former preferred. Los Blanco is an interesting recruit from points.