Serve Time can defy top weight
Noel Glynn’s charge clearly had plenty to do at the weights, but appears to be a horse with a future and should go close.
He won a bumper at the first time of asking at Sligo and then cruised to victory in a maiden hurdle at Ballinrobe.
It was in defeat, however, that the selection produced his best performance so far. That was at the Galway Festival when only collared in the closing stages and beaten a length into second spot by Dermot Weld’s Summer Soul.
It was a whopping 13 lengths back to the third, Miss Ailbhe, and she won at Downpatrick yesterday.
As you would expect in a contest of this nature there are plenty dangers, but, with Ruby Walsh doing the driving, Serve Time is the one to beat.
Two horses who caught the eye on their debuts in the same race at Gowran Park, So Amazing and Dolomite, are worth noting in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden.
They were separated by four and a half lengths when sixth and seventh respectively behind John Oxx’s Xinji. The market should be interesting, with preference for So Amazing.
Line Ball is the fancy to beat Coin Man and Drive On in the Lansdowne Real Estate EBF Novice Hurdle.
Christy Roche’s gelding won impressively at Punchestown and Wexford in May and any easing in the ground won’t worry him.
Major Title, who could never get an opening in the straight when fifth to Noplacelikehome at Tipperary five days ago, may find the opposition more to his liking in the Denis Moriarty Plant Hire Claiming Race.
