Get aboard Geraghty bandwagon
Geraghty is setting a scorching pace at the top of the jockeys’ championship and has real prospects of a double with Emotional Moment and McGruders Cross.
Tom Taaffe’s Emotional Moment is nap material to make a winning debut over fences in the Killinan Beginners ’Chase.
This classy sort is sure to have been well schooled and may well take high order among the novices as the campaign progresses.
A prolific winner over flights, he had the ability to score at distances from two miles to three.
The selection’s best effort, however, came in defeat when finishing a creditable fourth behind Xenophon in the Coral Cup at Cheltenham in March.
He is fancied to prove too strong for The Dark Flasher, who jumped well first time over fences when runner-up to Annshoon at Wexford.
Dual bumper success-story McGruders Cross can cope with some useful rivals in the Toboradora Maiden Hurdle.
He ran out a clear-cut winner at Fairyhouse and Navan and though neither contest has worked out particularly well, McGruders Cross did look a very promising horse in the making.
Tony Mullins’ charge was last seen when running well for a long way, before fading to finish 15th behind Liberman in the Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival.
Harry Rogers’ Baltray Queen might be well weighted in the Devil’s Bit Opportunity Handicap Hurdle.
She has shown little or nothing over flights so far and that’s why, obviously, the four-year-old finds herself towards the bottom of this moderate event.
Baltray Queen, though, has improved a bit on the level of late, winning at Downpatrick, as a prelude to going under by half a length to Near Dunleer on this track a week ago.
