DAILY RACING PREVIEW BY ANDY HOLDING
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9
4.35 GALWAY
GENUINE ARTICLE (NAP) (best price 15-8) has a hell of a lot to recommend in this extended mile handicap and despite the competitive nature of the race, he receives the confident vote to uphold his terrific track record.
Gerard Keane’s gelding never looked like being troubled when making all the running in the first-time pieces on his latest visit to Ballybrit and that victory took his C&D stats to 3241.
Bidding to follow up in The Irish Cambridgeshire at The Curragh last time out, he just lost out in a bobbing finish to the fast-finishing Jagged Edge, but it was another run that rubber-stamped his current wellbeing, along with his excellent run of performances on the data.
Looking at all his best efforts in his career, all of them have come with plenty of give underfoot and being blessed with a low draw provides him with the potential platform to make hay with a fast break from the gates.
GENUINE ARTICLE – 2-points win@15-8
5.05 GALWAY
RIZAL (best price 11-2) has left the impression on his last two starts he is a winner waiting to happen and returning to the same C&D where the birth of that thought process was hatched, Johnny Murtagh’s inmate can realise his potential .
Gelded after three modest runs in maidens as a two-year-old, the son of Lope De Vega ran better than his finishing position suggested over today’s C&D at the big meeting a month ago, running strongly at the death after meeting all kinds of trouble in running, and last time out at Bellewstown was just a pure case of the track being way too sharp for a horse of his size.
Indeed, it was a surprise that normally shrewd connections went down the route of asking him to operate at Ireland’s equivalent to a greyhound track and a return to today’s stiffer examination, albeit likely to prove short of his optimum long-term, is likely to see this imposing three-year-old in a much better light.
RIZAL – 1-point each-way@11-2
6.35 GALWAY
CHEEKY WINK (best price 6-1) narrowly failed to land a very competitive handicap over today’s C&D at the festival 39 days ago and she looks to have solid credentials in her bid to gain compensation on her return to Ballybrit.
Well positioned from the outset from a good draw (stall 2), the four-year-old raced in the perfect stalking spot just in behind the leaders coming down the hill but unfortunately, she hit a bit of a flat spot when eventual winner, Nan’s View, kicked off the home bend and it was a deficit she couldn’t quite manage to bridge despite putting in a power-packed finish.
Clearly a strong stayer at the trip on that evidence, hopefully today’s better-quality race helps the daughter of Masar in that aspect, and she makes plenty of each-way appeal at the morning odds.
CHEEKY WINK – 1-point each-way@6-1 (four places)