Good opportunity for Hidden Cave
A word of caution, however. There are eight races on the programme and, with six of them handicaps, that is usuually a recipe for disaster for punters!
Undaunted, though, we press on and give the nap to Hidden Cave in the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Coranna Handicap.
The daughter of Bishop Of Cashel performed solidly at Tipperary eight days ago, finishing third to stable companion, Foxhollow Lady, and Irish Verse. A repeat of that sort of effort will see her go close!
Confidence in Nic’s Colleen is tempered by the fact the six furlongs of the second division of the Moylough Concrete Handicap may prove on the sharp side.
Nevertheless, she comes here in the form of her life, having battled for a narrow victory at Limerick, as a prelude to a smooth success at Killarney last week, both contests over much further than this.
James Burns’ Inspectors Choice, runner-up behind John Oxx’s hot-pot, Azarouak, at Limerick can go one better in the McHale Engineering Maiden.
Vintage Port, rested since a mildly disappointing fifth to Gold Blended at Punchestown at the end of May, following a promising effort at Killarney previously, gets the nod in the Cummins Homevalue Hardware Maiden Hurdle.
