Sunday 10 December · Cork, Eire
12:45 Bar One Racing 'Guaranteed Multiples All Shops' Maiden Hurdle
- Distance
- 2m 0f 185y
- Going
- Soft to Heavy (Heavy in places)
- Class
- 0
- Prize
- EUR 12500
- Runners
- 24
Race preview
WESTERN DIEGO won his only point-to-point start in good style and was a useful sort in bumpers last season scoring in decisive fashion over 2m3f at Naas. The Willie Mullins-trained gelding was far from disgraced in the Cheltenham Festival bumper and is an exciting recruit to hurdles. No Time To Wait impressed in a Down Royal bumper and is closely matched with the selection on running in the aforementioned Cheltenham Grade 1, but was soundly beaten along with Raglan Road and Teuchters Glory in the maiden hurdle won by Ile Atlantique on heavy ground at Gowran last month. Teuchters Glory won two bumpers and probably boasts the best piece of form over hurdles with his third to Spillane's Tower at Naas last spring, while Old Port holds a rating in the 90s on the Flat