Spear can strike Gold
A hopeful nap vote falls on Gold Spear in the Kerry Petroleum Beginners Chase. He didn’t exactly set the world alight over flights, but promises to do better at this game.
Indeed, the six-year-old made a promising start at Killarney in July when finishing two lengths runner-up behind In The Dip.
That effort is relatively modest, but Gold Spear jumped well, displaying plenty of enthusiasm, and won’t have to step up a whole lot now to take this ordinary contest.
Some useful sorts are set to face the starter in the opening Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden and the pick of them, on what we know, is surely Jim Bolger’s National Swagger.
She’s been mixing it with better class, producing her best effort to date in the Group Two Debutante Stakes at the Curragh last time when fourth to Silk and Scarlet.
She’ll win if handling the ground, but preference is for David Wachman’s Faint Heart, a daughter of Sadler’s Wells.
Faint Heart was a costly failure at Galway, going down by a length to Right Key, but was all at sea on the fast surface then.
Kompressor, who will relish the expected testing conditions, can overcome a bad draw and land the Eddie Barrett Bookmaker Handicap.
The Petorius gelding found the extended six furlongs further than he wanted to travel when a close third to Badger Kennedy and Blanco at Sligo last week.
Supergood, third to Johnjo’s Express at Galway, is a token choice in the featured Brandon Hotel Handicap Hurdle.
