Panchita can pounce in Guinness Handicap
The vote goes to Jim Bolger’s Panchita, successful three times last season and who will handle the ease in the ground.
The daughter of Erins Isle will certainly strip a fresh horse, having had just one recent effort to her name.
That was at the Curragh earlier in the month when performing with real promise, third behind the John Oxx pair, Englishtown and Akash.
A huge field is set to face the starter in the Budweiser Handicap Hurdle, but a little on Ballygill Heights might not go too far astray. She never showed any signs of stopping when taking a winners’ bumper at Killarney last time.
The Harp Lager Race has a disappointing turnout of only three runners and, if the handicapper is right, this should prove a cakewalk for Timawari.
He was in a different league at the Curragh, in the Group Three Gallinule Stakes, finishing just over four lengths fourth behind Nysaean and has 21lbs in hand of Mabrooka and 26lbs on Govamix.
Brand New Beat, a trifle unlucky when second to Tiros at Leopardstown last Saturday night, gets the nap in the Smithwicks Maiden.
Pat Hughes has his charges in fine shape and Theseus can prove another for him in the Tony O’Malley Memorial Handicap ’Chase.
The seven-year-old returned from a break to score by four and a half lengths at Killarney and may be capable of defying an 8lbs rise in the weights.
