Opportunity knocks for O’ Bon Pardon at Fairyhouse
CITY SLICKER: Having made a winning start to life over fences at Punchestown last month, Dancing City can follow up at Naas on Sunday. Picture: Healy Racing
On a tricky Saturday card in Fairyhouse, O’ Bon Pardon, who contests the CCR Raceday Maiden Hurdle, makes most appeal. The lightly-raced five-year-old made his debut in the Goffs Defender Bumper at the Punchestown festival and ran a race full of promise in finishing sixth behind Sermandzarak.
Off from that until disappointing in a Galway bumper in late October, he was better on his hurdling debut at Punchestown and better again on his most recent start, when a close fourth behind Interchangeable in a maiden hurdle in Naas.
