Not my usual cup of tea but in the 2.00 Stratford Guard Of Honour 10/1 Has some decent efforts in novice hurdles and often front-runs, which is a key reason he stood out at Stratford today. Stratford is a track where you don't want to be miles off the pace and they swing in pretty sharpish on the home turn before a flat out battle to the line and I think it lends itself fairly well to prominent racers. Brassil takes off a really handy 10lb and puts this horse in with a right chance if bidding to make all and given an aggressive ride.
Look through his form and there are a number of decent efforts from animals rated in and around the 120 mark and therefore that 10lb claim for me might just about put him well in.
Ger Lyons: "Any way back to the Curragh and we have Fishermans Blues 5/1 2.20 Curragh in the first race. He is a lovely colt by Zebedee that is ready to run but will benefit for the experience. He has shown us plenty at home but is still a bit of a play boy so I expect him to need the day out but we won with similar on Friday at Dundalk."
They will all benefit from the experience so I'm happy with the 'lovely colt' description and quite like that ones chances of turning over the first ZOFFANY (the horse that frightened Frankel and Sir Henry when Tom Queally went for home about 7f out in the St James Palace) runner from AOB and Coolmore.


2.50 Iffraja 20/1
Taking a chance and having a small ew on Piri Wango 33/1 in the next at Curragh