Wrong Key looks the right choice
A very useful sort in the early part of last season, the four-year-old made a fine return at headquarters recently when partnered by Kieren Fallon. Always travelling sweetly, she quickened ahead with well over a furlong to run and was always holding Miss Nashwan, scoring by half a length.
Wrong Key showed a lot of speed over that mile and dropping down a furlong now may well work in her favour!
Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen could in for a lucrative afternoon. The duo’s once-raced Former Senator gets the nap in the Newbridge Credit Union Maiden.
This full-brother to Dance Design made an excellent start, when finishing fourth behind Tomahawk in a listed event at the Curragh last month, and is likely to come on plenty for the experience.
Other possibilites for Roswwell House are Faadhil, impressive when taking his maiden here last year, in the Yellow Bins Handicap and Perfect Touch in the P G Duffy and Sons Citroen Handicap.
Aidan O’Brien’s Arundel can land the Hotel Keadeen Maiden. The son of Sadler’s Wells performed with a lot of promise on his debut at Leopardstown in October.
He stripped the stable number two that day, but finished with a flourish to grab second behind John Oxx’s Sea Dart with Ballydoyle’s odds-on Dalcassian in third.
It will be fascinating to see how Beef Or Salmon does in the Peter Byrne Kildare Race. He made dramatic improvement over fences during the winter and will obviously be a popular choice. Preference, however, is for Kickham, who will be getting the ground he needs for the first time in a long time.
Back in December of 2001 Kickham beat Beef Or Salmon half a length in a bumper and is now a whopping 17lbs better in.
At Tramore tomorrow, Crusset is fancied to defy top weight in the Graun Hill Handicap Hurdle. He warmed up for this with a gutsy display on the level at Clonmel on Monday, outbattling Ciara’s Delight in a 12 furlongs maiden.
Lotomore Lad is well capable of running a big race in the Waterford and Tramore Racecourse Handicap Hurdle. He beat Spirit Of Texas a length, over an inadequate two miles, at Limerick and can make light of a 5lbs rise in the weights, over this more suitable trip.
