McCoy looks good on Oscar
Christy Roche’s progressive charge is a stout stayer, who loves to run near the front, and will take plenty beating in this two miles, six and a half furlongs test.
The dual bumper winner got off the mark over flights at Punchestown earlier in the month, scoring by 20 lengths.
That, however, far from tells the full story, because King Johns Castle was a definite danger when falling at the final flight.
A personal opinion is that the selection would have scored in any case, but, whether or which, there was plenty to like about the manner in which Oscar’s Advance went about his business.
David Wachman’s Drunken Disorderly, successful in his only point-to-point, has to be rated the main danger.
He very much impressed on his racecourse debut at Clonmel in October when beating subsequent winners Laetitia and Iktitaf.
Willie Mullins’ Cheltenham Wetherbys’ Champion Bumper hero, Missed That, was yesterday morning balloted out of the www.thurlesraces.ie Beginners ‘Chase and is only third reserve. There is surely something almost insane about a system which prevents its best candidates from taking part.
It’s the second time he has been balloted out this season and how ridiculous is it that the Thurles executive, and those who pay through the gate, are set to be deprived of his first venture over fences?
If Missed That, by some ‘miracle’, gets into the race then he would be an automatic choice.
In his absence Riverboatman, fourth behind On The Net on this track, would get the nod.
Worthwhile form is thin on the ground for the Cahir three-year-old Maiden Hurdle and the safest proposition appears to be Orpen Guama, runner-up behind Miss Caruso at Limerick.
Jack Ingham, a real talking horse prior to disappointing when a remote fourth behind Firth Of Forth at Gowran Park in February, has been given lots of time to mature by Edward O’Grady and can set the record straight in the Bumper.
