17:10 Punchestown

Sunday 16 February 2025

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5YO plus | 1m 7f 211y | Yielding to Soft (Soft in places) | 14 Runners | Turf

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr D G Lavery| T: G P Cromwell

Promise when fifth of 23 in novice hurdle at Leopardstown (16f, good, 66/1) on debut 52 days ago, not knocked about. Makes bumpers debut. Respected.

Form: 5

Casterly Rock⁴⁶

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Patrick M O'Brien⁽⁷⁾| T: P E Collins

Once-raced maiden. Fourth of 9 in bumper at Fairyhouse (16.5f, soft, 9/1) on NH debut 46 days ago.

Form: 4

Cosmos D'ainay⁷⁷

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr H C Swan| T: G Elliott

Cost £165,000 after winning the last of his 4 starts in points (Dec 1). Joined a top yard for his Rules career. Has to enter the reckoning.

Form: F-3P1

Do Brazil¹⁵⁶

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr J L Gleeson⁽³⁾| T: R O'Brien

11/4, remote seventh of 8 in bumper at Ballinrobe (16.2f, good to soft, 11/4) on debut 156 days ago. Evidently thought capable of better.

Form: 7

Easy Doyen

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Cian Cullinan⁽⁷⁾| T: C O'Dwyer

Doyen gelding. Dam, maiden hurdler, 1½m-2m winner on Flat, half-sister to fairly useful hurdler (2m winner) Magical Memoir.

Form:

First Sub

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: T P Harney⁽⁷⁾| T: W J O'Doherty

€1,000 3-y-o, Arctic Cosmos gelding.

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Gameofinches⁹⁸

Age: 6| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr P W Mullins| T: W P Mullins

Easy winner completed start in points (Nov 10) and looks an obvious one having joined Willie Mullins. Market confidence likely significant.

Form: F-1

Gatehouse Boy

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Miss P Elvin⁽⁷⁾| T: P J Rothwell

€12,000 3-y-o, Great Pretender gelding. Half-brother to French 2¼m hurdle winner Les Yeux Noirs.

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Mytimetoshine

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Niall Moore⁽⁷⁾| T: D Duggan

Berkshire gelding. Half-brother to 7f winner abroad Sugarbird. Dam, lightly raced on Flat, half-sister to useful hurdler (stayed 2¾m) Automated.

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Rojuco Mac

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr R W Barron⁽⁵⁾| T: C Byrnes

Soldier of Fortune gelding. Half-brother to fairly useful hurdler/fair chaser No Regrets. The stable's runners always need monitoring in the betting.

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Rough 'n' Smooth

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Anna McGuinness⁽⁷⁾| T: T Gibney

Conduit gelding. Dam unraced half-sister to bumper winner Smooth River.

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Super Fly^h⁴⁶

Age: 6| Weight: 12-0| J: Miss A B O'Connor| T: A McCann

Twice-raced maiden. Hooded for 1st time, sixth of 9 in bumper at Fairyhouse (16.5f, soft, 100/1) 46 days ago.

Form: 06

Tadhg's Rock⁹⁸

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr D Allen⁽⁷⁾| T: T O'Brien

Made frame on second of 2 starts in points but still likely best watched on Rules debut.

Form: 6-4

Walk On Annilog³⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-7| J: B Barry⁽⁷⁾| T: R Dunne

Twice-raced maiden. Fifth of 6 in bumper at this course (16.4f, soft, 50/1) 34 days ago.

Form: 75

Forecasts

Gameofinches (6/4), Cosmos D'ainay (9/4), Begorra Man (9/2), Casterly Rock (13/2), Rojuco Mac (14/1), Rough 'n' Smooth (16/1), Easy Doyen (20/1), Do Brazil (25/1), Gatehouse Boy (33/1), Walk On Annilog (33/1), Tadhg's Rock (50/1), Super Fly (50/1), First Sub (50/1), Mytimetoshine (50/1)

Willie Mullins has won the last 3 runnings of this bumper and can make it 4 in a row with GAMEOFINCHES, who was the ready winner of a point in November. Cosmos d'Ainay is another point winner who has joined a top yard for his Rules career and is second choice ahead of Gavin Cromwell's Begorra Man, who displayed plenty of ability when fifth in a warm maiden hurdle at the Leopardstown Christmas meeting on debut.