Saturday 7 August · Cork, Eire
14:07 Fermoy Handicap
- Distance
- 0m 6f 0y
- Going
- Soft (Yielding to Soft in places)
- Class
- 0
- Prize
- EUR 10500
- Runners
- 18
Race preview
RESOURCEFUL MAN is an each-way shout. Eddie Lynam's charge was gambled on in Dundalk last month and took fourth, beaten by a length and a quarter. The horse a neck behind him in fifth came out and won in a higher grade at Naas. Resourceful Man is unexposed having only raced five times and has shown that he can handle deep ground. Noirvento arrives on the back of a victory over an extended five furlongs on yielding ground at Sligo. She is a course and distance winner and the booking of 7lb-claimer Cian MacRedmond more than offsets the rise in the weights she got for that success. Pretty Smart won well over course and distance in July. She is 10lb higher, when the jockey's claim is factored in, but the juice in the ground won't inconvenience her.