This Weekend’s Irish National Hunt Tips at Curragh

This daughter of Sea The Stars was a maiden winner on debut at this track in August of her three-year-old season. Clearly, she took a while to come to hand, but she is a filly of significant ability. She had the second run at Cork about four weeks ago where she went the world of trouble up the straight and absolutely flew when getting some space inside the last hundred yards to finish a fast-finishing 2nd and in a couple of srides she would have been up. The step up in trip should suit her and I suspect this is only a small step on the ladder for her and she should be capable of being much more than a Listed level performer. I will be very disappointed if she gets beat.

This horse made his seasonal debut at Cork off a mark of 92 where he went down in a proper battle all the way up the home straight with a rival who he was conceding all of 22lbs to. That was a good effort on his first start and with likely improvement with that run under his belt and what is still a workable mark I think he will be very competitive again.

I'm hopeful he can go close and at a nice price to boot. Fingers crossed he can get his head in front.

This horse is a five-race maiden, but he has some solid form to his name. He's taken his form to a new level this season compared to last with two solid placed efforts so far over course and distance and over six furlongs at Cork. The step up back up to seven furlongs should suit for this his handicap debut.

A mark of 80 seems very workable to me and with Robert Whearty taking off an extra 5lbs he will just have 8st 7lbs on his back. I think he will run very well and with a bit of luck hopefully he can break his maiden here.