This Weekend’s Irish National Hunt Tips at Curragh

This well related son of Dubawi caught the eye of everyone at the Curragh over seven furlongs three weeks ago. He was slowly away from the stalls that day and raced in rear for much of the race before making up a huge amount of ground and flying home down the wide outside to finish second to a stable mate who had racecourse experience.

With any kind of natural progression, he will be a certainty here and even a reproduction of that debut run makes him very difficult to beat.

This filly got off the mark in a ten-furlong maiden here on her second start of her career before winning a Listed contest at Naas over ten and a half furlongs on her next start in a race that's working out quite well. She stepped up in trip and markedly in class most recently in the Irish Oaks where she was short of room at a crucial time in the home straight when beaten four and a half lengths into sixth on that occasion.

The drop back in class and trip here should be right up her street and I think she will take the world of beating.

A consistent individual who you can almost set your clock by as he rarely ever runs a bad race. He ran an absolute storming race here last time over course and distance when beaten just a length and a quarter. The ground was good to firm that day, and any bit of an ease would be a help here. He's got what I'd consider to be a good draw in stall 17 here and his stablemate will likely try give him a lead for as long as possible and a strong test over six furlongs will be right up his street.

I will be bitterly disappointed if he doesn't go very close for the man who I like to call "The King" Tim Doyle.