Progressive Oighear Dubh has sound claims

Oighear Dubh can land the nap in the John Lynch Memorial Maiden Hurdle at Listowel this afternoon.

Tony Martin’s horse failed to land a blow on his jumping debut at Galway, but ran with much more promise when finding only Time For Mabel too good at Ballinrobe last time out.

He was noted finishing with promise on the latter occasion, and is entitled to improve further for the experience. The half-brother to Pyromaniac and Artful Artist showed there that he can handle testing ground and, with a little improvement, will be very hard to beat.