12:30 Cork

Saturday 4 January 2025

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Happy New Year From All At Cork Maiden Hurdle

4YO to 5YO | 2m 190y | Soft | 14 Runners | Turf

Bop Wont Stop⁴¹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Phillip Enright| T: R Sweeney

Jukebox Jury gelding. Dam (b90) made frame in bumpers.

Form: 4P

Cappa Hill^t1⁴²

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Darragh O'Keeffe| T: Sean Allen

Kingston Hill gelding. Dam, unraced, closely related to useful hurdler/smart chase winner (2m-2½m winner) Gorgeous Tom. Wears tongue strap. Fourth completed starts in points.

Form: P-44

Kilcrea Castle²⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Mike O'Connor| T: J J Mangan

Thrice-raced maiden. 250/1 and hooded for 1st time, fourteenth of 20 in novice hurdle at this course (15.7f, soft) 27 days ago.

Form: 9-P0

Kiss Will⁴⁷⁸

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Paul Townend| T: W P Mullins

Tongue strap on for 1st time, second of 10 in bumper at Fontainebleau (12.9f, good, 11/1). Off 15 months. Makes hurdles debut. First run for yard after leaving Francois Nicolle (€280,000) and joined leading stable. Well bred and a very interesting contender.

Form: 2-

Nelson County¹⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Brian Hayes| T: R O'Sullivan

Twelfth of 18 in novice hurdle (50/1) at Naas (19.5f, good to soft) on NH debut 19 days ago.

Form: 42-0

Nettuno Italia²²

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Donagh Meyler| T: R O'Sullivan

Eleventh of 19 in novice hurdle at this course (16.2f, soft, 80/1) on NH debut 22 days ago.

Form: 0

Nukie's Artic

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Mr R Sugrue⁽⁷⁾| T: E McCarthy

Arctic Cosmos gelding. Dam (h95), lightly raced in bumpers/over hurdles, half-sister to fairly useful hurdler/useful chaser (stayed 29f) Captain Cj.

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Pure Steel²⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Mark Walsh| T: J J Mangan

Promising type. Fourth of 20 in novice hurdle at this course (15.7f, soft, 6/1) on NH debut 27 days ago. Should improve quite a bit for that.

Form: 1-4

Simpson's Paradox^t²⁸

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: Mr C P Tierney⁽⁷⁾| T: J A Kinsella

Modest Flat winner. Twice-raced maiden over hurdles. Twelfth of 19 in novice hurdle (125/1) at Navan (16f, soft) 28 days ago.

Form: 80

Tadhg's Rock⁵⁵

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

Berkshire gelding. Dam showed nothing sole start over hurdles. Made frame on second of 2 starts in points.

Form: 6-4

Tea In The Park²²

Age: 5| Weight: 11-12| J: M J M O'Sullivan| T: Eamon Courtney

100/1, fifteenth of 19 in novice hurdle at this course (16.2f, soft) on NH debut 22 days ago.

Form: 3P4-0

Bacchanalian^h⁹

Age: 4| Weight: 10-13| J: Sean O'Keeffe| T: D Queally

Fairly useful maiden on the Flat. Twice-raced maiden. 6/1, second of 16 in juvenile hurdle at Limerick (16f, soft) 9 days ago. Sets a solid standard.

Form: 42

Meteor Storm²⁸⁴

Age: 4| Weight: 10-13| J: Kevin A Murphy⁽⁷⁾| T: E M O'Sullivan

Fair maiden on the Flat, making jumps debut. Seventh of 9 in maiden at Dundalk (10.7f, 18/1), slowly away. Off 9 months. First run for yard after leaving G. M. Lyons.

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Nobody^h1²⁰⁶

Age: 4| Weight: 10-13| J: Sean Flanagan| T: Brendan Walsh

Modest maiden on the Flat, making jumps debut. Last of 13 in handicap at Limerick (11.5f, good to firm, 22/1), very slowly away. Off 6 months. Hooded for 1st time.

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Forecasts

Kiss Will (8/11), Bacchanalian (7/4), Pure Steel (6/1), Cappa Hill (33/1), Tadhg's Rock (33/1), Meteor Storm (50/1), Bop Wont Stop (50/1), Nobody (50/1), Nelson County (50/1), Nukie's Artic (50/1), Kilcrea Castle (66/1), Nettuno Italia (66/1), Simpson's Paradox (66/1), Tea In The Park (66/1)

It's taken connections of KISS WILL a while to get him to the track following his expensive purchase in 2023 but he couldn't be in better hands so a winning hurdles debut may well be on the cards. Bacchanalian sets a pretty good standard, with Pure Steel a potential improver.