Progressive Jayo can go one better
The extended 12 furlongs is going to take plenty of getting for three-year-olds and the son of Grape Tree Road looks best equipped to deliver.
He was certainly doing all his best work at the end of a mile and a half at Tramore last time when beaten a head into second spot by Violet Wings.
Admittedly, that winner has since been well beaten. But it isn’t the full story and the third and fourth respectively, Keel Castle Maine and Bluebyyou, have both scored in the meantime.
Baron De’l, grabbed late over ten furlongs by Snow Lord at Navan, rates the principal danger.
Edward O’Grady’s ex-German horse Belord is the choice in the Killinan three-year-old Maiden Hurdle.
He made a solid start in this country, and over jumps, when going under by a neck to Cabo at Cork last month.
Belord showed in Germany that a soft surface holds no fears for him, taking a ten furlongs plus contest on the level by five lengths at Bremen.
The frustrating Kerryhead Windfarm is given a final chance in the two mile October Race.
Navan should have been made for him on his latest appearance, but he only managed third behind Bluebyyou and Laureldean.
This track is far less suitable, but it does seem a weaker heat than Navan and Michael Hourigan’s charge is given the benefit of the doubt.
Strangely Brown is surely the best long-term prospect in the Vendee Hurdle, but preference now is for the somewhat enigmatic Wild Passion, who may be best caught at the first time of asking!
