Try Jenari for openers
A more than useful sort in bumpers, Jessica Harrington’s charge has taken really well to jumps and looks a horse with a decent future.
After coasting to success in a moderate maiden at Limerick, he stepped into winners’ company at Gowran Park last time.
The selection ran a cracker, only giving best by a length to main market-rival, Cash And Go. The fact it was a further 11 lengths back to the third was very encouraging.
Lyreen Legend, taking a drop in class after finishing a creditable third behind Unaccompanied and Sailors Warn at Naas, has to be regarded as the principal worry.
It is a fair journey to Navan for Robert Tyner’s Its The Ice I Like, but the progressive six-year-old can make it all worthwhile by taking the 2012 Membership The Ideal Christmas Gift Maiden Hurdle.
The ex-winning point-to-pointer got off the mark on the racecourse when easily taking a modest bumper at Clonmel last month. Prior to that he enjoyed a pop over flights at Punchestown and that is obviously a plus.
Noel Meade’s Knockgraffon King is the one to beat in the two and a half mile Slane Maiden Hurdle.
He looked a particularly good sort in the making when battling on dourly to win a two miles and three bumper at Naas back in January. Knockgraffon King has, however, been sidelined in the meantime with a chipped bone in his knee, but Meade’s horses are flying right now and fitness will hardly be a worry.
The Bumper is best left to Willie Mullins’ newcomer, The Paparrazi Kid, who is a half-brother to Saturday’s Fairyhouse winner, Rourke’s Cross.
