Cuchulains Son can slay rivals
Willie Mullins’ five-year-old is a horse with a future and should relish this two and a half miles.
He is certainly taking a drop in class, compared to his last race at the Punchestown Festival last month.
That was a well contested Grade 1 and Cuchulains Son produced the performance of his young life to finish a highly creditable fourth behind Mick The Man.
This is another decent enough contest of its type, but the selection is rapidly on the upgrade and should prove difficult to beat.
In A Rush, who cost odds-on punters a bundle at Killarney last week, is given the benefit of the doubt in the Come Racing In Roscommon Fillies Maiden.
A 4-9 shot on that occasion, In A Rush had no answer to the powerful late surge of Tommy Stack’s Provider, going under by a length and three parts.
On the face of it that was most disappointing, but there is the real possibility Provider is a very useful sort.
Tony Martin’s Stage Manager gets the nod in the Martinstown Opportunity Handicap Hurdle.
He hasn’t been seen since taking fourth behind Killeen Castle at Leopardstown in January and, as often happens with regard to the Martin yard, the market will probably be a major help when determining the horse’s prospects.
Zakfree, fourth to King Rama at the Curragh in a race which is working out nicely, could be the answer to the first division of the Connollys’ Red Mills Horse Care Cubes Handicap.
