Irish Stallion Farms EBF Novice Hurdle

Off time: 16:15 | Winning time: 5m 40.4s

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Jon Snow²¹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-9| J: Paul Townend| T: W P Mullins| OR: 140

8/15

Doubled his tally in this sphere with minimum of fuss in 4-runner novice hurdle at Galway (20.7f, good to soft) 21 days ago, hard held. Stable in good form. Leading claims.

Form: 3321-1

Kaatskill Nap²²

Age: 7| Weight: 11-6| J: D E Mullins| T: W P Mullins

7/2

Fairly useful winner at 11f on Flat and ran out a convincing winner back over hurdles in 12-runner novice at Galway (21f, soft) 22 days ago, despite doing plenty to wrong. Remains with potential.

Form: 332/1

Oscar Montel²⁸

Age: 6| Weight: 11-6| J: C P McNamara⁽⁵⁾| T: E McNamara| OR: 123

6/1

Fair hurdler. Barely needed to improve to get off the mark in 10-runner novice hurdle at Limerick (24f, soft, 11/10) 28 days ago, keeping on well. This is tougher.

Form: 42053-1

Skyace³¹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-2| J: J S McGarvey| T: J J Hanlon

10/1

Followed up from Tipperary in a much better race at Gowran (20f, good) 31 days ago, easily for all she did have the run of the race.

Form: 233-11

Rule Of June¹⁸³

Age: 6| Weight: 10-9| J: Phillip Enright| T: L Casey

250/1

Well held in novice/mares maiden hurdle. Very hard to make a case for back from 6 months off.

Form: 2366-

Non-Runners

Nero Rock¹⁵

Weight: 11-6| Age: 5

T: M F Morris J: D J McInerney

Soldiers Hill¹¹

Weight: 11-6| Age: 5

T: G Elliott J: Sean O'Keeffe

Forecasts

Jon Snow (8/15), Kaatskill Nap (7/2), Oscar Montel (6/1), Skyace (10/1), Soldiers Hill (14/1), Nero Rock (16/1), Rule Of June (250/1)

JON SNOW is on an upward curve and looks up to completing the hat-trick. His stablemate Kaatskill Nap ran out a convincing winner back over hurdles at Galway, despite doing plenty wrong, so he seems likely to pose the main threat, ahead of Skyace, who had the run of the race when scoring at Gowran last month.