Jack can stay unbeaten over flights
Joe Crowley’s juvenile was useful enough on the level, but promises to be far better at this game, on the evidence of his two efforts thus far.
He made a spectacular start at Roscommon early last month when scoring unextended by no less than 17 lengths.
Paco Jack followed with an equally impressive performance at Tralee, producing a winning margin of 18 lengths.
This is much tougher, however, and it is never easy for these youngsters to carry a double penalty.
He can prove equal to the task in any case, at the main expense of Noel Meade’s Queen Althea, who has been in good form of late both over jumps and on the flat.
John Murphy’s Tuscan Evening is very hard to oppose in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden.
She already has a high rating of 103 and that has been well earned in different class to what she meets here.
The daughter of Oasis Dream ran the race of her life in the Group 2 Debutante Stakes at the Curragh last time when a creditable third behind Campfire Glow and Listen.
Christy Roche’s Ah Ya Boy Ya could provide the solution to the Bumper. He made a solid enough debut when second to Roughing It at Killarney and may have been beaten by a smart newcomer subsequently in the shape of Charlie Swan’s Forty Foot at Roscommon.
Chevalier Country, touched off by a short head by Indiana Gal (rec. 4lbs) at Gowran Park, gets the nod in the valuable Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Premier Nursery.
