January looks to get off the mark
It isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but you will get paid the same at Laytown as say Cheltenham, so hopefully we can find a winning nap in the shape of Ted Walsh’s January in the Glina’s Cottage Maiden.
The contest takes place over the longest trip allowed at the track, seven furlongs, so the selection is taking a dramatic drop in distance.
He was last seen at Killarney in the middle of July, finishing two and a half lengths runner-up behind Evening Rushour. Previously, January ran over a mile and six at both Fairyhouse and Leopardstown.
But the son of Daylami is not short of speed, as evidenced by the manner in which he quickened in the closing stages when beating the useful Define in a maiden hurdle at Cork in April.
The frustrating Romeo’s On Fire might find the vagaries of Laytown to his liking and is given a final chance in the Pat’s Central Race.
He nearly always finds a way out, but it must be said the four-year-old didn’t enjoy much luck in running when performing solidly in fourth behind Invincible Ash at Dundalk on Sunday.
Mt Weather gets the nod in the opening Seaview Slovakia Handicap.
The five-year-old wasn’t disgraced in mid-division behind Adriatic at Tipperary over five furlongs, having come home well when scoring over six at Naas previously.
John Hanlon’s Shaimma, successful in a handicap hurdle at Killarney last time, could land the Hibernia Steel Handicap.
