Thursday 15 December · Naas, Eire
15:25 Buy Your Naas 2023 Membership Now Flat Race
- Distance
- 1m 7f 180y
- Going
- Class
- 0
- Prize
- EUR 10000
- Runners
- 11
Race preview
FIREFOX should benefit hugely from his debut. By a leading sire and a half-brother to The Bosses Oscar, he cost 280,000-euros as a three-year-old and while he started favourite at Navan, ran very green before finishing strongly and will be much more street-wise. Loughglynn contested a valuable and hot sales race on debut in April and while well held, improvement is likely. Makingachamp is a half-brother to two capable winners and hails from a yard which excels in bumpers. Givehimethehonor won on point-to-point debut and while the form has yet to be properly tested, both he (a subsequent 75,000 pounds purchase) and a final fence faller subsequently sold for big money. Bective Bridge was beaten 12 lengths on debut while Connors Cross, a half-brother to two blacktype performers, showed promise in a point-to-point. Lucky Zebo was well held at Naas while Baltray is a notable bumper runner from Noble Yeats' source.
| No | Horse | Form | Jockey | Trainer | Wgt | Forecast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baltray | D Allen | D Hassett | 12 0 | |||
| 2 | Bective Bridge | 3 | Mr J L Gleeson | C Collins | 12 0 | ||
| 3 | Connors Cross | 2 | Mr R W Barron | J Fahey | 12 0 | ||
| 4 | Firefox | 4 | Mr J J Codd | G Elliott | 12 0 | ||
| 5 | Givehimthehonour | 1- | Mr B O'Neill | P Nolan | 12 0 | ||
| 6 | Loughglynn | 6- | Mr P W Mullins | W P Mullins | 12 0 | ||
| 7 | Lucky Zebo | 2-F20U | Mr D Roche | H De Bromhead | 12 0 | ||
| 8 | Makingachamp | Mr Pat Taaffe | N Meade | 12 0 | |||
| 9 | Mo Chruinne | 5 | Mr J W Hendrick | A Donoghue | 12 0 | ||
| 10 | Storm Barra | 8-00P | Harry Sexton | A Sexton | 12 0 | ||
| 11 | Where's Teddy | Miss R Murphy | N Dooly | 11 7 |