Dare To Doubt can deliver in Bumper
The selection made a promising start when fifth to Milbig Lass at Punchestown at the end of May and was then absent until reappearing at Downpatrick last month.
Heavily backed, 5-4 to 8-11, Dare To Doubt didn’t disappoint, making all the running to beat the subsequent Galway winner, Honours Graduate, by five and a half lengths.
The surface was on the fast side then, in total contrast to the likely testing ground now, but the shrewd Willie Mullins will have been well aware of that when declaring his charge and there is every chance she will handle it, being by King’s Theatre.
Timmy Hyde’s Dumitas is a worthy opponent. He stayed on well when beating Huckle Buck Shoe and Honours Graduate at Bellewstown and both of those horse have scored in the meantime.
The progressive Vivaldi, formerly in the care of Aidan O’Brien, gets the nod in the Owen Dervin and Sons Hurdle.
Beaten ten lengths into third spot behind Gudnis Gracious Me at Galway, that still seems to give him the edge in this contest.
One of the main dangers now is Tarkari, but he was two places and six and a half lengths adrift of Vivaldi at Galway and has to reoppose on 2lbs worse terms.
The mud-loving Tovaria could be the answer to the Irish Stalllion Farms’ EBF Fillies Handicap.
She beat Munnings and Silver Tide at the Curragh last time and can go close, despite a 6lbs rise in the weights.
