Risk Accessor percentage bet in tricky match
Hopefully, neither of the two possibilities for the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Chase will sidestep the issue, although if one of them does then the credit side is that we will be tucking into dinner half an hour earlier than might have been anticipated!
In any case Risk Accessor and Splendour promise an interesting little tussle. On overall form there is no doubt Risk Accessor is the better horse, but the situation is complicated by the fact Splendour produced a display at Roscommon last time far in advance of anything he had achieved over fences previously.
Sally Cox’s charge made most of the running to beat the smart Golden Row by ten lengths. Risk Accessor is currently rated 133 and with Golden Row having a mark of 137 there shouldn’t, in theory, be much between them.
Risk Accessor, however, having a first outing since a creditable fifth behind Nearly A Moose in the Galway Plate, is preferred.
Jim Bolger’s mildly frustrating and one-paced La Bayadere gets the nap to land the Glen Maiden.
She has been given a nice break since failing by a length and a half to cope with Raggtime Toon on this track four weeks ago and should strip fresh and well.
John Oxx’s Shamsada looks the danger, with Cathy Gannon aboard. She is two behind Pat Cosgrave in the apprentice championship and Shamsada has an obvious chance, having gone down by a length to Hardy Eustace over two miles at Navan last time.
Barry Geraghty, who is riding out of his skin, can guide Irish Tzar to success in the INH Stallion Owners’ Maiden Hurdle.
The selection has finished second in two ordinary bumpers of late, to Konker Hero at Gowran Park and Sue ’N Win at Listowel, but should possess sufficient ability to get through this very moderate event.
