Buffalo Bill can make winning hurdling debut
Now a seven-year-old, the selection has been lighly raced and this will be just his sixth ever race.
A model of consistency, he finished second in a bumper at Galway as a four-year-old, before turning in two fine displays, also in bumpers when trained by Aidan O’Brien, to record convincing successes at Listowel and Tipperary.
Buffalo Bill subsequently proved no match for the classy Beef Or Salmon, in very testing conditions, which were all against him, in a flat race at Galway last October.
He then wasn’t seen again until the Punchestown Festival in April, when finishing a far from disgraced ninth of 19 behind Royal Rosa in a bumper which has produced numerous winners in the meantime.
At Wexford this evening, where the three chases were abandoned because the track was unraceable, Edward O’Grady’s Favourite Son gets the vote to land the Chadwicks Hurdle. The five-year-old beat Hanorla cosily at Kilbeggan and showed he was on the upgrade when a creditable sixth to Zimbabwe in a very competitive 16-runner Curragh handicap in the meantime.
Favourite Son meets Fairwood Present on 7lbs worse terms compared to a handicap, but that rival jumped poorly when a beaten 2-5 shot at Limerick on Saturday night.
At that same Limerick meeting, Galtee View appeared rather one-paced when third behind Patton over two miles.
Christy Roche’s charge is worth risking again, in the second section of the bumper, stepping up another two furlongs in trip.
