Longer trip to suit Hash Brown
Three is no doubt the five-year-old, who failed to win a bumper, is a modest performer, but did offer hope there might be better to come when making his debut over jumps at the Galway festival. The selection went off a 25-1 shot and that certainly reflected the level of form he brought to a contest where Dermot Weld’s Tandem was all of the rage.
Tandem could only manage third behind Willie Mullins’ Most Peculiar and Aidan O’Brien’s Draco, with Hash Brown filling fourth.
Hash Brown was beaten just under nine lengths, sticking well to his task in the closing stages.
Unlike at Galway, Hourigan’s charge now has an allowance of 8lbs for not winning a bumper and will be suited both by stepping up three furlongs in trip and down in class.
Aidan O’Brien’s Falkirk would be a long, long way down the Ballydoyle pecking order, but everything is relative and he should be more than capable of landing the Vaughan Shoes Maiden.
The middle of three outings was his best effort to date, second to Weld’s Good Tradition at Gowran Park in April in a race that has worked quite nicely.
Falkirk was then absent until reappearing at Galway ten days ago when fourth behind another Weld inmate, Massinga.
Pat Flynn’s Storm Away is the fancy to make a winning start over flights in the Costello McDermott Mares’ Maiden Hurdle. She ran far too freely when down the field behind Quick Jack on the flat at Galway, but remains a useful sort, having a success on the level and in two bumpers to her credit.
