Article has leading chance of getting off mark
The three-year-old showed plenty of promise on his first two outings and went off a well-backed favourite to get off the mark at Gowran Park last time.
He looked all over a winner when hitting the front over two furlongs down, but was run out of it close home and beaten half a length by In The Folly.
That contest was run over a mile and a half and this ten furlongs now looks ideal for Dermot Weld’s colt.
The Equine Warehouse three-year-old Maiden Hurdle is one of the more interesting events on an eight-race programme, bringing together a couple of useful sorts.
Perhaps, it will mainly concern Brandon Mountain and Tango Foxtrot, separated by a length and a half when second and third respectively behind Battledress at Bellewstown.
Battledress boosted the form when going in again at Tralee last week and Brandon Mountain gets the nod on this occasion.
Ruby Walsh is a significant booking for the disappointing Wild Bill Hickok in the moderate Nutri-Gard Maiden Hurdle.
Charlie Swan’s gelding has proved costly in bumpers at Galway and Kilbeggan, when a lot of use was made of him, but Walsh is almost guaranteed to get a tune from the six-year-old and the duo get the nod.
Slice Of Life, who made a cracking start when fifth to Tabaco over flights at Tralee seven days ago, could prove the answer to the Bumper.
