Meet And Greet (Johnny Barry) winning a Leopardstown bumper last year© Photo Healy Racing
This afternoon’s meeting at Naas has a number of short-priced favourites, notably Elimay in the featured BBA Ireland Limited Opera Hat Mares Chase, as well as Journey With Me and Billaway but there are some significant market moves elsewhere on this eight-race card.
Oliver McKiernan sponsors two divisions of the Cavan Developments Supporting Kill GAA Maiden Hurdle, and the Rathcoole trainer will be hoping to recoup some funds in the first of those (the 2.15 race) where Meet And Greet has been well-backed.
The Leopardstown bumper winner came home strongly when third to Uhtred on his reappearance over course and distance in November and today’s rain-softened ground will suit.
The six-year-old gelding was available at 15/2 overnight but is now generally a 7/2 chance.
I Don’t Get It and Cloudy Tuesday are others to attract interest at double-figure prices.
I Don’t Get It was as big as 16/1 overnight for the Adare Manor Opportunity Handicap Hurdle but is currently available around 9/1.
The Neill McCluskey-trained gelding comes here off a series of solid efforts over a variety of trips but has yet to win in 29 starts.
Billaway is sure to go off at cramped odds for the Congratulations To Naas GAA On An Incredible Year Hunters Chase but there is some market opposition in the shape of Cloudy Tuesday.
Turlough O’Connor’s charge, who beat It Came To Pass and Fenno’s Storm at Ballindenisk in December, was a 22/1 chance overnight but is now just half those odds.
Market moves will be at a premium as punters look for clues in the concluding four-year-old bumper, and the Gordon Elliott-trained newcomer Trust Me Nate seems the one to be on having shortened from 9/4 into a general 11/8 favourite.
