Zimbabwe the best bet on a dismal card
Any meeting which has four handicaps should come with a health warning and that is very much the case here.
Supporting Zimbabwe in the maiden won’t make you particularly rich, but he definitely looks the safest proposition on an impossible programme.
The son of Kahyasi is actually already a winner. He scored at Thurles in November, but subsequently lost the race on a technicality.
Zimbabwe won well that day, sweeping through in the closing stages to beat Nopekan a cosy length and a half, and has to be a confident choice. Frances Crowley’s once-raced Mondeed gets the nod to land the Mares Bumper. She performed with promise at Killarney, taking third behind stable companion In The Park and Rossmio.
The Slaney Maiden Hurdle is a dreadful contest with Tony Martin’s Rathnally Park no more than a token choice. The son of Henbit finished seventh of 12 in a moderate event won by Gorthnacurra at Down Royal in March.
He lost all chance when blundering badly at the fourth, however, having been backed from 5-1 to 7-2.
Teo Perugo, runner-up over flights at Killarney and who dead-heated with Bob Justice for second behind the smart Govamix in a maiden on this track previously, could supply the answer to the Saab 93 Sports Saloon Handicap.
