Tyner targets Naas handicap with I'm Slippy Trainer Robert Tyner is hoping to get promising I’m Slippy back on track following a recent disappointment at Punchestown in January. A debut winner of the traditionally hot Tattersalls Sales Bumper last April, the five-year-old gelding scored on hurdling debut in November and then finished second to subsequent Grade 1-winner and leading Cheltenham-fancy Talk The Talk in a Fairyhouse Grade 3 on November 29. I’m Slippy’s latest performance was when finishing last of five as a beaten-favourite in a Punchestown rated novice hurdle in January, after which he was reported to have lost his front fore shoe in-running but was otherwise normal post-race. Trainer Tyner reports "he was disappointing the last day but we didn't find anything wrong. Everything was ok afterwards and he could now go to Naas on March 8 for a 0-140 handicap hurdle. "His runner-up run behind Talk The Talk in November has worked out but he beat us five lengths, so maybe how far could he have beaten us? He has yet to get a published mark but ran off 130 in the rated race the last day."
