McGahoncan flash home in sprint
Ger Lyons’ That’s Hot is the best horse at the weights, but preference is for John Oxx’s Flash McGahon.
The three-year-old has to step up on juvenile form to prove good enough, but there was sufficient promise in his reappearance to indicate he will do just that.
Flash McGahon contested another listed event at Naas last month, finishing a creditable four and a half lengths second to the best sprinter in the country, Dandy Man.
That’s Hot has 6lbs in hand of the selection and showed his liking for this track when defying 10-0 to win a competitive handicap first time out this campaign.
Oxx’s once-raced Dance The Classics, a daughter of Sadler’s Wells, gets the nap to land the Coolmore Fasliyev Fillies Maiden.
She didn’t exactly set the world alight on her debut when only fifth of eight behind All My Loving at Leopardstown.
Dance The Classics did run a nice sort of race, however, and Oxx’s inmates frequently make a lot of improvement from their first to second outings.
Dermot Weld’s Purple Orchid is the choice in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Median Auction Maiden. She caught the eye when fifth to the useful looking Another Express at the Curragh and this might well prove a lot easier!
Dr Willie Martin is the clear pick of the weights in the Mallow Hurdle, but is hard enough to catch right and the vote falls on Gleann An Sagart.
He has 10lbs to find with Dr Willie Martin, but his only success to date came on this track and he will love the fast surface. Gleann An Sagart wasn’t disgraced at Punchestown last week when seventh to Sizing Europe.
Kells Castle, up 5lbs for finishing runner-up behind shock winner All Rise at Punchestown on Saturday, gets the nod in the Mount Ruby Handicap Chase.
