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The action today begins with a bang as the Follow Tipperary Races On Facebook Mares Maiden Hurdle has a few participants who we could be hearing plenty about over the coming months. Shattered Love makes her debut over timber, although she has jumping experience having won a point-to-point at one of the top venues, Lemonfield in County Limerick, back in March 2015.
It was over a year then, and after a transfer to the Gordon Elliott yard, that the daughter of Yeats turned up for a Naas bumper. She duly impressed again when scoring under young Luke McGuinness.
The Gigginstown House Stud-owned Shattered Love bettered that form when third on her last start in the Grade Two mares' bumper at the Aintree festival.
Looking at her form, a 180-day absence from action shouldn't be any impediment for the well-related five-year-old, and Bryan Cooper's mount could have too much for useful rivals such as Dont Kick Nor Bite Elusive Theatre and Inchiquin High
Half-an-hour later in the Join The Tipperary Supporter's Club 2017 (C & G) Maiden Hurdle, we should have another informative heat with Harold Peto beginning over jumps.
On this fellow's last Flat start, 520 days back, he competed with an official rating of 94 to his name. The Vale Of York gelding could be a decent recruit to this game for Barry Connell, whose retained rider Denis O'Regan takes the mount on Alan Fleming's charge.
Connell and O'Regan have prospects with Inis Meain too, in the www.tipperaryraces.ie Beginners Chase. A good horse on his day, the nine-year-old made a satisfactory switch to the larger obstacles when third behind Three Stars at Listowel.
Elliott sends out a big rival in the Davy Russell-ridden Jetstream Jack He's a point-to-point winner who could make a nice chaser, judging by form like his latest second placing at Ayr in April. King's Wharf for Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh, might be the one for the featured Schooling At Tipperary Rated Novice Chase.
