3.30 2m. 4f. 150yds. 11 Declared. Play Ladbrokes 5-A Side M'dn Hdle of €12,000.00 4-y-o plus
1st - €7,200.00 2nd - €2,400.00 3rd - €1,200.00 4th - €600.00 5th - €360.00 6th - €240.00
FormscanBy Mark Nunan - ERIC BLOODAXE has some top bumper form to his name and can make a winning start over hurdles. The 6-year-old lowered the colours of subsequent Cheltenham winner Ferny Hollow at Fairyhouse in December 2019 and followed up in a winners’ contest later that month. After being off the track for over a year, there was also plenty of encouragement to be taken from his fourth to Kilcruit in a Grade One at Punchestown in the spring and hopefully he will cope with the likely quicker conditions here. Chinx Of Light was second over course and distance in March and had three subsequent hurdle winners behind him. That promising hurdles debut came on soft ground and his full-brother Wounded Warrior is a real mudlark, so a sound surface is a concern for him as well. Quantum Realm beat a useful type in a point-to-point a year ago and may improve back over obstacles after being slightly disappointing in two bumper outings this season.
A hurdle for four years old and upwards, maidens at startingWeights - 4-y-o 11st 12lbs 5-y-o and up 12st Mares allowed 7lbs