13:30 Ayr

Monday 6 January 2025

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Ayr Racing Club Only 30 EBF Mares' 'National Hunt' Novices' Hurdle (GBB Race)

Off time: 13:31 | Winning time: 5m 30.25s

Golden Point³⁶

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: D R Fox| T: Miss Lucinda V Russell

13/8

Modest in bumpers but showed more than on hurdles debut when third of 12 in a novice at Carlisle a month ago. Type to go on progressing.

Form: 432-43

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Holly Bird⁷⁰

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: Ryan Mania| T: A M Thomson

5/2

From the family of top-class hurdler/very smart chaser Oscar Whisky and showed something to work on when fourth in a novice at Ayr on hurdling debut. Goes up in trip now and she should be a factor in a race like this.

Form: 23-54

Just Her Type²³⁶

Age: 5| Weight: 11-0| J: Tom Broughton⁽⁵⁾| T: M Comley

18/1

€16,000 3-y-o, Pour Moi mare. Half-sister to fairly useful 3¼m hurdle winner/useful staying chaser Just Your Type and fairly useful hurdler Zanstra, stayed 3m. Runner-up sole start in points in May.

Form: 2

Reflection Of You²⁹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: Alan Doyle⁽⁵⁾| T: Miss Lucinda V Russell

5/2

Won sole start in Irish points (Oct 2023) and followed up in 6-runner bumper here first time out under Rules in April. Hasn't come close to that form in 2 starts over hurdles, though.

Form: 110-63

Royal Creek²⁹

Age: 7| Weight: 11-0| J: Sam Coltherd| T: W Coltherd

20/1

Sister to bumper winner Benign Dictator, and half-sister to fair hurdler West Is Awake. Made a winning debut in a Ballinrobe bumper for Edmond Kent and bought for £90,000 since. That was over 2 years ago and she understandably needed the run on hurdles debut a month ago.

Form: 1/6

Tread Softly Now²¹¹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: C O'Farrell| T: I A Duncan

100/1

Lightly-raced maiden who looks pretty limited.

Form: 8/46-77

Vroomoz Eile³³

Age: 6| Weight: 11-0| J: Charlotte Jones| T: James Moffatt

14/1

Dam unraced half-sister to fairly useful hurdler/very smart chaser (stayed 3m) Bennys King. Maiden Irish pointer who was well held on last month's hurdles debut.

Form: 42523-8

Non-Runners

Alltheroadrunning³⁵⁹

Weight: 11-0| Age: 7

T: J Ewart J: B S Hughes

Forecasts

Golden Point (13/8), Holly Bird (5/2), Reflection Of You (5/2), Vroomoz Eile (14/1), Just Her Type (18/1), Alltheroadrunning (20/1), Royal Creek (20/1), Tread Softly Now (100/1)

GOLDEN POINT stuck to her task pretty well when third at Carlisle a month ago and with this slight step up in trip sure to suit, she's capable of winning a novice against her own sex. Holly Bird and Royal Creek are a couple of potential threats.