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Age: 6 years

Owner: Darragh McDonagh

Place /
No / Draw
Date / Going /
Distance / Class
Time + Course Horse + Weight
Jockey / Trainer
VerdictStarting price

5

5th Apr 2026

Yielding To Soft

2m 0f 0y

14:40 Fairyhouse

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11st 4lb

J: Sean Bowen

T: John C McConnell

Runner-up to Bambino Fever in last year's Champion Bumper; won on hurdle debut at Listowel (2m, good-to-yielding) before 3l second to subsequent Challow Hurdle winner No Drama This End in Grade 2 at Cheltenham (2m5f, soft); much too free and jumped untidily in a similar Cheltenham race in January; back to form in winning a four-runner Punchestown event.

17/2

5th

4

24th Jan 2026

Soft

2m 4f 56y

Class 1

16:10 Cheltenham

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11st 5lb

J: Danny Mullins

T: John C McConnell

Runner-up in the Champion Bumper here (2m, good to soft) last March and won on hurdle debut at Listowel before 3l second in Grade 2 here (2m5f, soft), behind No Drama This End who won the Grade 1 Challow last month; this front-runner is open to improvement if settling better and he's a key player.

6/4F

7

4th Jan 2026

2m 4f 0y

13:55 Naas

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11st 10lb

T: John C McConnell

2nd

4

14th Nov 2025

Soft

2m 5f 0y

Class 1

15:30 Cheltenham

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11st 2lb

J: Mark McDonagh

T: John C McConnell

Made the running when second in the Grade 1 Champion Bumper here in March (2m, good to soft; won a bumper on soft); won readily when odds-on for hurdle debut at Listowel (2m, good to yielding) in September and there's stamina in his pedigree; key player now up in trip.

7/4F

1st

1

25th Sep 2025

Yielding

2m 0f 0y

14:50 Listowel

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11st 12lb

J: Mark McDonagh

T: John C McConnell

Only 1-5 in bumpers but finished second in the Champion Bumper at Cheltenham in March and that form sets him apart in this company, for all that he was no doubt flattered after racing prominently off slow fractions; hard to oppose on hurdling debut.

8/13F