320K Sizer off the mark

He is a proper horse and is one that we think the world of. We started him off in a bumper at Leopardstown and I'd say there just wasn't enough strength in him at the business end that day. He has done a world of schooling. He'll run in a maiden hurdle next month and everything is geared towards going chasing with him. He is a fine big horse and I'd say that we won't see the best of him until he goes chasing.

So said Jim Dreaper's son, Tom, of Mobile Sizer in an Irish Field stable tour last month and the son of Presenting duly did the business under Andrew Lynch in division one of the Follow @TipperaryRaces On Twitter Maiden Hurdle.

Always on the gallop, Alan Potts' Mobile Sizer was being strongly pressed when the challenging Sir Lynx (8s into 6s) got the last flight 'wrong.' That was probably crucial in determining the outcome as Mobile Sizer held on by a neck. The winner and the runner-up made a little bit of contact going to the last and that necessitated a steward's enquiry. It was hardly surprising when the result was allowed stand.

Meanwhile Barbaric Times as big as 25s this morning and returned at 7/1, had to settle for fifth place.

Jim Dreaper said of Mobile Sizer in the aftermath of this success: "He looks big and strong but at the back of it he's not yet big and strong.

"He was never going to be a top hurdler so we weren't afraid of losing his novice status.

"He's probably finished now and he'll come back chasing next season.

"Big horses like him make little of their hurdles."

Mobile Sizer cost Alan Potts €320,000 as a three-year-old at Tattersalls Ireland Derby National Hunt Sale in June 2010. (TW & EM)