September 25 / 15.55 Roscommon

15.55

Yielding To Soft

Class Grass Handicap Hurdle

  • Prize money: £6004.42
  • 3m 0f 109y
  • 6 runners
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Class Grass Handicap Hurdle

Runners: 6 runners

Type: Hurdle Turf

Surface: Turf

Weather: Scattered showers

6/1 (Won)

  • Win: £2.70
  • Place: £1.30

Form: P-0912 CD

Last run: 48 days

W: 10st 12lb

9 yo Gelding

OR: 100

Form & Verdict
C&D winner; two shockers this season before 18s Limerick win; backed that up here latest so firmly in picture.
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Time + Course Horse + Weight
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Verdict Starting price

2nd

14

31st Oct 2025

Good To Yielding

3m 0f 30y

13:32 Down Royal

Fill The Tank

10st 11lb

J: Cian Cullinan

T: Aengus King

Three-time winner over hurdles at around this trip, although not for over two years; recent Limerick clear third over this trip encouraging and 7lb claimer booking a positive.

15/2

2nd

14

31st Oct 2025

Good To Yielding

3m 0f 30y

13:32 Down Royal

Fill The Tank

10st 11lb

J: Cian Cullinan

T: Aengus King

Three-time winner over hurdles at around this trip, although not for over two years; recent Limerick clear third over this trip encouraging and 7lb claimer booking a positive.

15/2

12

19th Oct 2025

Good

3m 0f 0y

15:40 Limerick

Fill The Tank

10st 10lb

J: Ms E C Costello

T: Aengus King

Three-time winner over hurdles at around this trip; over two years since his last success; fair form in handicaps during the summer; struggled in a claimer last time.

12/1

12/1

  • Place: £1.60

Form: 85772- BF

Last run: 161 days

W: 10st 7lb

6 yo Gelding

OR: 95

Form & Verdict
Remarkably well-backed and duly improved when second in Tramore maiden chase in April; seemingly better than this mark so but risky on return/handicap debut.
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Verdict Starting price

8th

1

1st May 2025

Yielding

4m 1f 11y

15:40 Punchestown

Read To Return

11st 12lb

J: Mr Derek O’Connor

T: A J Martin

held up in rear

14/1

25/1

Form: 3434-8 C

Last run: 9 days

W: 10st 8lb

13 yo Gelding

OR: 96

Form & Verdict
Old boy a course winner; noted on C&D third over a year ago; of some interest at the prices as trip too sharp when not shamed on latest; rider 0-15.
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No / Draw
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Time + Course Horse + Weight
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Verdict Starting price

13th

17

9th Jun 2024

Good

2m 3f 49y

14:55 Punchestown

Benkei

10st 0lb

J: Miss M Walsh

T: H Rogers

held up in rear, not fluent 3rd

33/1

10th

11

21st May 2024

Good

2m 4f 134y

16:28 Punchestown

Benkei

11st 4lb

J: Miss M Walsh

T: H Rogers

Veteran is a six-time winner but last win came in 2018 (2m6f Killarney); best watched nowadays despite reduced mark.

20/1

10th

11

21st May 2024

Good

2m 4f 134y

16:28 Punchestown

Benkei

11st 4lb

J: Miss M Walsh

T: H Rogers

Veteran is a six-time winner but last win came in 2018 (2m6f Killarney); best watched nowadays despite reduced mark.

20/1

Form: 328-33 BF

Last run: 17 days

W: 12st 0lb

5 yo Gelding

OR: 116

Form & Verdict
Went remarkably short in-running on stable debut at Kilbeggan, running another solid race; clings onto 0-116 status now handicapping; percentage call to oppose given trip quandary.
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Verdict Starting price

2nd

3

12th Feb 2026

Heavy

2m 6f 151y

Class 5

16:25 Leicester

Ideal Du Tabert

12st 0lb

J: Mr Huw Edwards

T: Miss Laura Richardson

Some good chase form in 2023-24 season and he won two points early last year; he's in the picture on his best form but has failed to shine on his two point starts this winter.

4/1

Form: /BP-90

Last run: 100 days

W: 10st 0lb

10 yo Gelding

OR: 81

Form & Verdict
No apparent chance; 7lb wrong.
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Time + Course Horse + Weight
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Verdict Starting price

13th

14

28th May 2024

Good To Yielding

2m 6f 74y

20:00 Ballinrobe

Military Hill

10st 13lb

J: Donagh Meyler

T: R K Watson

Sole hurdle win came in Galway maiden in 2019; not much last season and best watched on seasonal return.

25/1

13th

14

28th May 2024

Good To Yielding

2m 6f 74y

20:00 Ballinrobe

Military Hill

10st 13lb

J: Donagh Meyler

T: R K Watson

Sole hurdle win came in Galway maiden in 2019; not much last season and best watched on seasonal return.

25/1

Form: 02/79/

Last run: 579 days

W: 10st 0lb

8 yo Gelding

OR: 87

Form & Verdict
Not an obvious sort off huge layoff for trainer 0-19 but nearly won a bumper in 2021 so mark clearly workable in theory; 1lb out of weights.
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Time + Course Horse + Weight
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Verdict Starting price

20

8th Sep 2025

Yielding To Soft

2m 6f 97y

17:22 Galway

Rockon Henry

10st 2lb

J: Alan King

T: Fintan Feeney

0-8 over hurdles and yet to trouble the judge; heavy defeats both starts in 2025 after a long layoff; hard to make a case for.

40/1

13

25th Aug 2025

Good

2m 6f 61y

18:13 Ballinrobe

Rockon Henry

10st 1lb

J: Shane O’Callaghan

T: Fintan Feeney

Down the field over C&D last month on first run after a long absence; little merit in his form since a second placing in a Tipperary bumper in 2021; makes no appeal.

33/1

16

22nd Jul 2025

Yielding

2m 6f 41y

19:12 Ballinrobe

Rockon Henry

10st 7lb

J: Sean Cleary-Farrell

T: Fintan Feeney

Sparingly raced 10yo has shown very little in six starts over hurdles and has been off since October 2023; would be a surprise winner.

50/1

Non-runners

Hand Over Fist, Jay Jay Zee, Pat Coyne, Outside The Door

+o+e Accumulators

Payout
Exacta €6.20
Straight Forecast €6.81
Tricast €21.52
Trifecta €23.70

Selections

SPOTLIGHT:

Fill The Tank

RP RATINGS (IRE):

Jay Jay Zee

The Irish Sun:

Read To Return

TOPSPEED:

Benkei

POSTDATA:

Fill The Tank