Owenbwee can keep up the strike rate

THE Cruess-Callaghan horses have a partiality to Wexford and their good strike rate here can be sustained this evening by Owenbwee…

THE Cruess-Callaghan horses have a partiality to Wexford and their good strike rate here can be sustained this evening by Owenbwee, one of two attractive mounts for which Paul Carberry has been booked. The other is Attack At Dawn on a programme with a very alcoholic flavour to it.Owenbwee won his bumper here two years ago, beating a well fancied Willie Mullins runner Porridge Hill by eight lengths. He came back to Wexford in October to achieve his first win over hurdles beating Slaney Glow and now it can be his turn to win his first chase in the Power Gold Label Beginners event.His jumping first time out over fences at

Sligo was not over-fluent but he still got around to finish second to Corrigeen

Rambler who in turn won a Wexford handicap chase earlier this month to show that the Sligo contest was a fair sort of novice for this time of year when all the would-be Cheltenham aspirants are out on grass.Attack At Dawn looks to have more on her plate in the Paddy Irish Whiskey Mares Maiden Hurdle with a guaranteed maximum permissible course turn out of 15.She has been running consistently well of late and like Owenbwee she, too, has a form credential that is backed up by a handicap success. She was flattered to be beaten two lengths only by Princess

Gloria here on the fourth of July but Princess Gloria has the makings of a nice handicapper as she was not extended to score at Gowran Park eight days later.There was a sizeable punt on Manarah at Killarney and the run in finishing in the rear to Citizen Kane made no sense at all. Previously the Hamdan Al

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Maktoum filly had been placed in a far superior race at Naas. This was the maiden in which Ayers Rock beat Spirit Of Tara and here you are talking of

Curragh-style form.

Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor is the racing correspondent of The Irish Times. He also writes the Tipping Point column