Hothouse Flowers 14th June Handicap Chase

Off time: 15:00 | Winning time: 4m 12.4s

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Seskin Flyer³⁵

Age: 8| Weight: 11-7| J: L Quinlan⁽⁷⁾| T: P Carey| OR: 118| BF| D

7/1

Three chase wins already in a busy campaign, latest Navan in March (2m1f, yielding to soft), though well held back there since. Conditions fine but high enough in the ratings seemingly.

Form: 114216

Crazyheart^p¹⁷

Age: 8| Weight: 11-5| J: Mr L P Gilligan⁽⁷⁾| T: P Nolan| OR: 116| D

6/1

Wexford winner (2m, soft to heavy) last month. Held back there since over longer trip but should be suited dropping in distance once more. Career-best needed to defy this rating.

Form: 6U4313

Barna Venture^h¹⁰

Age: 9| Weight: 11-2| J: Mr J Hogan⁽⁷⁾| T: D Hogan| OR: 113| BF| D

5/1

Running well over the larger obstacles around the turn of the year including a win in a Punchestown handicap over 2m. Higher in ratings now but has enjoyed a recent hurdles spin and should be spot on for this.

Form: 1U2138

Littlestickarubarb^h⁸

Age: 7| Weight: 10-12| J: I J McCarthy| T: M Winters| OR: 109| BF| CD

2/1

Mare has 1-3 record so far since going chasing, winning in good style over this sort of trip at Clonmel last month. Second since at Tramore, very likely to give her running again.

Form: 233312

Bee A Beneficiary^h¹¹

Age: 8| Weight: 10-2| J: M J M O'Sullivan⁽⁷⁾| T: D Queally| OR: 99| BF

9/4

Pair of good runs at Thurles and Limerick have represented improved chase form. Versatile sort should be in the firing line with drop in trip not an undue worry.

Form: 081024

Cap'n⁹³

Age: 8| Weight: 9-12| J: S J Gray⁽³⁾| T: P W Flynn| OR: 95| BF| D

12/1

Lightly-raced winning chaser (beat sole finished at Ludlow 13 months ago). May be better for January's stable debut at Navan over 3m when stopping very quickly. Sent off 5-2f there, so a market check is needed.

Form: 541-977

Non-Runners

Leap Dearg¹⁴³

Weight: 11-7| Age: 11

T: J Nash J: G Brouder

Shrewdoperator⁵¹

Weight: 10-3| Age: 9

T: P J Rothwell J: C D Maxwell

Forecasts

Littlestickarubarb (2/1), Bee A Beneficiary (9/4), Barna Venture (5/1), Crazyheart (6/1), Seskin Flyer (7/1), Shrewdoperator (7/1), Leap Dearg (12/1), Cap'n (12/1)

Not easy ruling anything out of this race. Crazyheart drops in distance and should give a solid account despite a career-high mark but the nod sits with model of consistency LITTLESTICKARUBARB. She's run well all three starts over fences and might be up to doubling her tally now. Last year's winner Shrewdoperator showed a bit more at Navan last time and might have a challenge in him while Barna Venture can go well back over fences with a recent pipe-opener to assist.