KILBEGGAN (07 May 2005)

Yielding

6:30 Sean Hughes Memorial Handicap Hurdle (5yo+,74-116)

[off 6:30] £6,615.96, £1,541.49, £679.79, £392.55 3m

Comments In Running OR TS RPR

1 Regal Son P M J Doyle 6 11-0 D N Russell 3/1F 96 — —

2 7 Market Mariner D T Hughes 6 10-4 P W Flood(3) 7/1 89 — —

3 1 An Culainn Beag Denis P Murphy 9 10-13 p J L Cullen 16/1 95 — —

4 2½ Polly´s Dream Patrick Carey 9 10-12 p K Whelan 6/1 94 — —

5 8 Slyguff Rory Michael McCullagh 7 12-0 b T P Treacy 8/1 110 — —

6 Royal Mount Loftus P Hughes 6 9-13 J P Elliott 14/1 81 — —

7 Legendsofthefall Michael Cunningham 6 10-1 D J Condon 10/1 83 — —

8 Harbour View E McNamara 6 9-10 B C Byrnes(7) 10/1 85 — —

9 Open Range Noel Meade 5 11-3 P Carberry 10/1 99 — —

10 Gone Walk About Mrs Denise Foster 8 10-4 R M Power 8/1 86 — —

11 Glenbane Lady Joseph Crowley 7 10-4 Andrew J McNamara(3) 12/1 89 — —

12 Craughwell Aris F J Bowles 10 10-6 P A Carberry 25/1 88 — —

13 Quietly Does It Mrs John Harrington 6 10-0 R Geraghty 12/1 82 — —

14 Bybloxe Cornelius O´Keeffe 8 10-3 A O´Shea(3) 16/1 88 — —

15 Sudden Approach Edward U Hales 6 10-3 T G M Ryan(3) 10/1 88 — —

PU Georges Boy Martin Kinane 7 10-11 J R Barry 10/1 93 — —

16 ran TIME 6m 12.90s TOTAL SP 157%

NON RUNNERS: Jack The Hough ,Roundstone Lady ,Smell The Coffee

1st OWNER: Cyril Naughton BRED: Cyril Naughton TRAINER: P M J Doyle

2nd OWNER: Racing Management Services

3rd OWNER: John N Place

TOTE WIN £5.20 PL £2.00, £1.40, £2.70, £2.10; Ex £26.50; CSF £32.55; TRICAST £347.58

ANALYSIS: Quite a competitive handicap chase on paper but REGAL SON, backed both off the course and on it, took it up after the fourth-last and was pushed into a commanding lead. He is going to go up sharply for this, possibly as much as 10lb.

Trainer Pat Doyle said: "He likes nice ground so we will keep him going. We thought he was a nice horse at one time but he is ordinary."

Market Mariner is an ultra-consistent sort who ran yet another good race. His turn should come soon.

An Culainn Beag won over an extended two and three-quarter miles in soft ground at Limerick in early March but appeared to have rather lost her way in recent starts.

However this was much more like her form.

Polly's Dream is suited by this trip but her running at Cork last month suggests she is at her best in more testing ground.