Assignment not Beyond the Pole

BEYOND THE POLE, not everybody’s favourite horse, but one who has been good to us in the past, might be worth risking in the Mullinam Handicap at Fairyhouse today.

If you were to take his latest effort at Galway literally then Dermot Weld’s charge may as well stay at home. He finished over 21 lengths sixth in the contest won by Golden Cross, never threatening at any stage to take a hand in the finish.

But the ground was very testing that day and Beyond The Pole simply cannot operate on such a surface.