Coliseum can collect
Davy Russell is a significant booking for Robbie Hennessy’s four-year-old, who was a costly failure at Bellewstown last month.
Taken wide for most of the trip on soft ground, the selection faded badly in the closing stages when fifth behind Honour The World.
His previous run at Limerick however, on firm ground, was a far better effort. The selection made most of the running, before going under by a length and a half to The Fist Of God.
He had some useful enough performers behind and a reproduction of that performance will see Coliseum go close.
Charlie Swan’s Valain gets the vote in the Ernst and Young Hurdle. An unlucky neck second behind Ireland’s Call (rec. 8lbs) at Down Royal, he has to be fancied to at least reverse those placings.
Valain has since run well on the flat, finishing three parts of a length runner-up behind Star Wood at Bellewstown.
The Richard Power Private Clients Betting Handicap Hurdle may be best left to Willie Mullins’ Tango Foxtrot.
He was never travelling, on rain-softened ground, when only eighth to Orpen Guama at Killarney.
Previously, though, he was holding every chance when parting company with Davy Condon two out at Gowran Park, contest won by Cabin Point.
