15:42 Galway

Saturday 28 October 2023

All13:5714:3215:0715:4216:1716:5217:22

SANSERV Rated Novice Chase

Off time: 15:42 | Winning time: 4m 55.7s

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Selected odds by:

The Big Chap²¹

Age: 6| Weight: 11-9| J: S W Flanagan| T: P W Flynn

7/2

Useful chaser. 2 wins from 6 runs this season. Career best when winning 13-runner novice chase at Fairyhouse (16.5f, soft, 50/1) 21 days ago. More needed under a penalty here but has to be taken seriously all the same.

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Battle It Out²¹⁹

Age: 5| Weight: 11-5| J: C G O'Dwyer⁽⁵⁾| T: C O'Dwyer

16/1

Lightly-raced winner over hurdles. Career best when winning 12-runner novice hurdle at Cork (20f, heavy, 2/7), kept up to work. Off 7 months ahead of this chase debut. Mark Walsh prefers Spillane's Tower.

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Clifton Warrior¹⁹³

Age: 7| Weight: 11-5| J: M P O'Connor⁽³⁾| T: H De Bromhead| OR: 126| BF

6/1

Useful hurdler. Good second of 10 in novice chase (5/4) at Tipperary (17.5f, soft), conceding first run. Off 6 months but will have every chance if fully tuned-up.

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Hands Of Gold²³⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 11-5| J: R A Doyle| T: A L T Moore| BF

7/1

Useful hurdler. Latest win in hurdle at Naas in February. 11/4, seventh of 11 in handicap hurdle at Naas (19f, soft). Off 7 months ahead of this chase debut. Passed over by Mark Walsh.

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Hartur D'arc²⁷

Age: 6| Weight: 11-5| J: E Walsh⁽³⁾| T: T Gibney

12/1

Fairly useful hurdler. Hooded for 1st time, third of 5 in minor event hurdle (18/5) at Killarney (22.8f, good to soft) 27 days ago. Makes chase debut and down in trip. Improvement needed.

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Pour Pavore¹⁶⁹

Age: 7| Weight: 11-5| J: C D Maxwell| T: G P Cromwell| C

22/1

Fairly useful hurdler. 25/1, eighth of 14 in novice chase at Kilbeggan (19.1f, good to soft) 169 days ago. Should progress in due course but others preferred on this occasion. Yard also saddles Steppenwolf.

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Snake Oil³⁶⁴

Age: 8| Weight: 11-5| J: M J M O'Sullivan| T: B Connell| BF

15/2

Promising individual. Fairly useful winner at 20f over hurdles. Fourth of 7 in novice chase (6/4) at this C&D (heavy) on debut over fences, not knocked about. Off 12 months. Open to improvement in this sphere.

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Spillane's Tower¹⁸³

Age: 5| Weight: 11-5| J: M P Walsh| T: J J Mangan

7/4

Useful winner at 19f over hurdles. 16/1, good second of 9 in novice hurdle at Punchestown (16f, good to soft) when last seen in April. Likely to play a leading role if his jumping passes the test now switched to fences.

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Steppenwolf²⁵

Age: 5| Weight: 11-5| J: P M O'Brien⁽⁷⁾| T: G P Cromwell

33/1

Fair winner at 19f over hurdles. 40/1, fell in novice chase at this course (18.5f, heavy) 25 days ago. Others make greater appeal.

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Forecasts

Spillane's Tower (7/4), The Big Chap (7/2), Clifton Warrior (6/1), Hands Of Gold (7/1), Snake Oil (15/2), Hartur D'arc (12/1), Battle It Out (16/1), Pour Pavore (22/1), Steppenwolf (33/1)

SPILLANE'S TOWER is Mark Walsh's pick of the three JP McManus-owned runners and could take plenty of stopping if he takes to fences at the first attempt. The 5-y-o progressed in four runs over hurdles last season, culminating in a solid second in a Punchestown novice, and he could make up into a useful chaser. Clifton Warrior has found just one too good on each of his two starts over fences and is feared most ahead of The Big Chap, who recently belied odds of 50/1 in a Fairyhouse maiden chase.