Nolan hoping Seahorse can make waves at Galway Trainer Paul Nolan has won the Guinness Galway Hurdle with three different horses in a five year stretch from 2002-2006 and he has a good chance of making it four next week with the very talented HMS Seahorse, who is likely to get into the race off a very nice handicap mark. The Galileo colt was last seen bolting up in a premier handicap at The Curragh on Irish Derby weekend. a performance which saw his Flat mark raised 19lb to 101. On his previous outing he was third to Vauban in the Grade 1 four-year-old hurdle at Punchestown and is currently rated 132 over hurdles. Nolan is confident about his chances in a race which is very close to his heart. ”He was a consistent horse on the Flat for Aidan O'Brien being placed in four of his five starts. We picked him up (for £24,000) from John Halley in Newmarket. "He's been consistent over hurdles too. He was fourth in the Boodles where he was pushed out very wide after a false start, hit the last and stall wasn't beaten far in what looked a competitive contest. "We entered him in the Galway Hurdle but didn't think he would get into it. In other years he wouldn't have but this year, because it's probably a smallish entry of thirty-six, he does get into it. "He looks to be getting into it off bottom weight at the moment which would leave it very hard not to run him in it”
