Tavern Timesone to follow
She has plenty to do off 11-6, having gone up by 12lbs for winning the Galway Plate, but has a real touch of class and is well capable of a big run.
Willie Mullins’ mare is only a seven-year-old, is proven on the ground, jumps really well and has the scope to improve past the handicapper.
She was good at Galway, buckling down in fine style in the straight to nail Wise Old Owl inside the furlong pole and score by a length and a quarter.
It was another 11 lengths back to the third, so a decent rise in the weights was somewhat inevitable.
The nap vote goes to Tavern Times in the Ballygarry House Hotel Novice Hurdle over two and a half miles. The seven-year-old did us a favour at the Galway festival and is one to follow, until we know better.
He was impressive then, going to the front shortly after the second last and galloping on powerfully to beat Endless Intrigue by a comfortable two and a half lengths.
The frustrating Foot Soldier can put it together in the opening Listowel Arms Hotel EBF Maiden.
He was fourth last time behind stable companion, Daddy Long Legs, at Gowran Park and has a neck to find with third placed, Leatherwood.
Foot Soldier, however, is by Danehill Dancer and may well come into his own on this ground.
