Bonnie can defy top weight
He may have to carry a huge weight, but there is no doubt he appears to have a lot in hand in a moderate contest.
The three-year-old bolted in here on Monday, making practically all of the running and scoring by seven and a half lengths.
The selection now carries a mandatory 5lbs penalty, but the handicapper has pushed him up by no less than 16lbs in future races.
Wakhan is fancied to overcome an absence of 124 days in the Listowel Printing Works Maiden.
Such a long break is hardly a major worry, considering he is trained by John Oxx, whose horses have hit a rich vein of form of late.
Wakhan has been rested since finishing second to Nantucket Bay at Navan in May, having previously handled an ease in the surface when second to stable companion, Zanughan, also at Navan.
For Bill gets the nod in a decent little five-runner Southampton Goodwill Chase. She is a particularly smart mare - when on song - producing one of her better efforts last season at Thurles when beating the Galway Plate winner Blazing Tempo. Finger Onthe Pulse and Free World provide solid opposition, but For Bill is the one going forward and is readily preferred.
Austin Leahy's mud-loving Gra Geal Mo Chroi, who found the ground much too quick at Clonmel last time, gets the vote in the L.M. Carey and Company Handicap.
Mags Mullins' Cairdin - he beat two subsequent winners when taking a bumper at the Galway festival - can make a successful debut over jumps in the John J Galvin Maiden Hurdle.
