HILL IS THE OSCAR ACT AT 6.8: Shamrock’s nap, Oscar Hill, was 6.8 when he picked it for Gowran Park today, but don’t forget to keep your Daq up! Watch the betting action throughout the day, and plot your own Market Movers.
You can’t keep a good man down. Gordon Elliott, perhaps unlucky at Cheltenham when Toner D’Oudairies was touched off in the Martin Pipe, quickly bounced back with a double at Down Royal.
And the plan today for his Oscar Hill (3.05) at Gowran Park, will be to take no prisoners. I expect to see him go off in front and stay there. He’ll be hard to catch on the sticky ground.
Front-running is the secret they unlocked to this ‘tricky’ horse (the trainer’s own word for him) at Downpatrick earlier in the month when he ran away, 31 lengths clear of the second horse.
Since Oscar Hill had also romped home – by 14 lengths – in a chase at the start of the year, the handicapper had to scratch his head and come up with an answer.
So it is that he has the steadier of a stone more on his back this afternoon but stats and conditions are in his favour again. Every winner of this race so far has been a young improver down below 11st.
The novice hurdle (3.35) is the quality occasion on this card, featuring a horse that has beaten the County Hurdle winner, Alderwood.
That was Willie Mullins’ Laganbank back in September. His form seemed to tail off, but the same thing happened the season before. So the answer seems to be to catch him fresh today.
SHAMROCK’S BETS
NAP: Oscar Hill (3.05 Gowran Park)
NEXT BEST: Loch Ard (2.00 Gowran Park)
DAQ TRIO: Loch Ard (2.00 Gowran Park), Oscar Hill (3.05 Gowran Park), Laganbank (3.30 Gowran Park)
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