Dropped to maiden company for her third hurdles start MO GHILLE MAR can make her experience count in a likely clash with Blake whose Flat form in Britain suggests he is of similar ability to Jessica Harrington's filly. French import Hudson can improve from his run at Leopardstown in December. Carried With Love and Sundance Sioux may also feature. [Alan Sweetman]
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Showed ability as a juvenile for Andre Fabre; soundly beaten in three maiden hurdles (remote third on second occasion); needs to improve in first-time cheekpieces.
Two wins on soft at Sandown (1m and 1m2f) for Peter Chapple Hyam last season; apprentice-ridden when 12l sixth of 15 in the Old Rowley Cup at Newmarket on his final start in Britain; 125,000gns purchase last October; has been gelded and makes plenty of appeal on hurdling debut.
Half-brother to two Flat winners in France; won on heavy ground and on AW for Jean Claude Rouget last season; had one run in Morocco for another French trainer before joining Tony Martin; potentially interesting.
Twelfth foal; brother to a point winner, half-brother to the useful five-time winner Different Gravey and Fortune Dancer (point); dam Flat/hurdle winner; senior jockey aboard with a 5lb claimer on stablemate Galilean Prince.
Half-brother to four-time hurdles winner Fourofakind; dam maiden, out of 1m4f winning half-sister to St Leger winner Millenary, Derby third Let The Lion Roar and 1m4f Group 3 winner Head In The Clouds.
Showed ability on the Flat in France, placed twice on soft ground; picked up for 62,000Euros at Arqana in July and ran well for a long way on hurdles debut at Leopardstown over Christmas before tiring; was quite well supported then; tongue-tie now fitted, and improvement likely.
Dam an unraced sister to three winners, from the family of Rhinestone Cowboy and Wichita Lineman, stablemate Carried With Love has the advantage of experience.
Fair maiden on the Flat, rated 78; made a satisfactory introduction to hurdling when fourth in a maiden at Punchestown; confirmed potential for maiden success with Fairyhouse second.
Placed in a 1m4f heavy ground handicap at Galway in October; improved from her hurdles debut at Punchestown when fourth behind her trainer's Cheltenham winner Puturhandstogether over C&D; obvious chance.
71-rated Flat maiden for Willie McCreery, placed in 1m4f Listowel maiden on good; contrasting ground for recent hurdles debut at Fairyhouse but handled it reasonably well in finishing fifth; hard to fancy after tailed off run at Gowran.
Useful middle-distance performer on the Flat, though failed to do herself justice on her AW debut at Dundalk in January; has run in two good hurdle races, a Grade 2 contest at Leopardstown and a conditions event at Fairyhouse in which she was a respectable third of six behind a useful yardstick, 134-rated Bacchanalian.