Attitude the answer
This is a moderate enough contest and Jessica Harrington’s inmate has to go close, on the evidence of his latest effort at Naas last month.
Producing easily his best display to date, Got Attitude finished a creditable fourth behind Our Bob in a contest which has been working out quite nicely.
Both third placed Step Outside and Prudent Honour, who finished seventh, have scored in the meantime.
Willie Mullins currently has two smashing mares, J’y Vole and Pomme Tiepy, taking all before them and unveils another potentially useful sort in Candy Girl in the second division of the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Beginners Chase.
Whether she is in their league remains to be seen, but Candy Girl should prove well capable of making a winning debut over fences against this opposition.
She has had just one outing so far this campaign, running a cracker when third to Grangeclare Lark in a Listed event over flights at Leopardstown at Christmas.
The first section of the same contest is best left to the former winning pointer, Tim Doyle’s Talktothetail.
She has obviously had her problems and was returning from a long absence when runner-up behind Scavenger in a three mile maiden hurdle at Gowran Park in December. It was a promising effort and, if building on that, should prove well up to this task.
There are some particularly interesting newcomers in the Bumper, but the one to beat is the relatively experienced Rochester Row. He performed with plenty of promise first time out behind Sesenta in a hurdle race here and appeared to run too free for his own good, again over flights, when fifth to Dani California at Down Royal eight days ago.
