Off The Mark poised to get off the mark

Although off the track for more than a year, Off The Mark should not be opposed in the Tullamore Maiden Hurdle in Kilbeggan tonight.

Well-backed when making a successful debut in a Leopardstown bumper in March of last year, he went on to finish second, beaten a length by Aminabad, in a listed four-year-old bumper in Limerick last that month.

A High Chaparral gelding, trained for J P McManus by Christy Roche, Off The Mark has presumably had a few hold-ups in the intervening months.