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Sunday 9 February 2025

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William Hill Keep Your Raceday Positive (Pro/Am) Flat Race

Off time: 16:55 | Winning time: 4m 12.1s

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A Boy The Kid^h1²¹

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

17/2

8/1, fifth of 10 in bumper at Windsor (16f, good to soft, 8/1) on NH debut 21 days ago. Hood on 1st time. Open to improvement.

Form: 5

Bop Wont Stop²³

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr J L Gleeson⁽³⁾| T: R Sweeney

28/1

Once-raced maiden. Fair form when third of 11 in maiden hurdle (33/1) at Cork (16.9f, soft) on NH debut 23 days ago. Makes bumpers debut.

Form: 4P3

Burrows Drive²⁸⁵

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr F Maguire| T: J P Dempsey

4/1

Once-raced maiden. 28/1, third of 17 in bumper at Punchestown (16.7f, good to soft) on NH debut. Off 9 months.

Form: 3-

Copacabana

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr P W Mullins| T: W P Mullins

9/4

£52,000 3-y-o, Blue Bresil gelding. Dam, modest maiden hurdler (stayed 21f), half-sister to fairly useful hurdler/useful chaser (2m winner) Falcon Island. Much respected newcomer from the Willie Mullins yard.

Form:

Coyote Spirit⁶⁴

Age: 7| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr J H Williamson⁽⁷⁾| T: G Elliott

13/2

Has made a good start in bumpers, chasing home a promising one of Gordon Elliott's here in December. Has since switched to the Elliott yard and is almost certainly capable of better again.

Form: 6-2

Frankie John⁷⁸

Age: 5| Weight: 12-0| J: Mr D Doyle⁽⁷⁾| T: D Hogan

12/1

Cost £275,000 after winning a point in November. It'll be very interesting to see what the betting makes of this one.

Form: 1

Mount Mason^t²²

Age: 6| Weight: 12-0| J: J I Duggan⁽⁷⁾| T: O McKiernan

16/1

Thrice-raced maiden. 40/1, fourth of 8 in bumper at this course (16f, soft) 22 days ago.

Form: 312-04

Noticebox³¹⁹

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

12/1

Clear second and still every chance when fell last sole start in points last March. Sold for £80,000 since. Needs monitoring in the betting.

Form: F-

Polepatrick⁴⁵

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

50/1

Twice-raced maiden. Promising second on Down Royal debut last May but went backwards from that when eighth of 14 in bumper there 8 months later, pulling hard.

Form: 28

Returning Officer

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

9/2

€100,000 No Risk At All gelding. Brother to fairly useful hurdler/fair chase winner in France Shekidame. Interesting to see how he compares in the market to stablemate Coyote Spirit.

Form:

Ginny Weasley¹⁴

Age: 6| Weight: 11-7| J: Ms M Barcoe⁽⁷⁾| T: J Barcoe

400/1

Twice-raced maiden. Eleventh of 12 in bumper (250/1) at Naas (18.7f, heavy) 14 days ago.

Form: P0-0

Non-Runners

Teds Corner³⁵

Weight: 12-0| Age: 5

T: A J Martin J: M J Molloy

Forecasts

Copacabana (9/4), Burrows Drive (4/1), Returning Officer (9/2), Coyote Spirit (13/2), A Boy The Kid (17/2), Frankie John (12/1), Noticebox (12/1), Mount Mason (16/1), Teds Corner (25/1), Bop Wont Stop (28/1), Polepatrick (50/1), Ginny Weasley (400/1)

An interesting bumper. COYOTE SPIRIT should have more to come having switched to Gordon Elliott since finishing second over C&D in December and gets the nod, although a strong market move for the Willie Mullins newcomer Copacabana would put a slightly different slant on things. Expensive point recruit Frankie John is another fascinating contender.