...........THURLES 15 45.............

The 3.15 is a very ordinary handicap but will be interesting to see what improvement Mullins gets from ex Hen Knight Isleofhopeanddreams(positive fwiw on his site),his form is frankly poor though seems to have a good mark based on his British ratings. Would nearly be any price rather than the nearly odds on if with anyone else.
Drive On Locky does nothing fast but has a bit of consistency and keeps on well. Not a big horse the 11st 10 lb would be a worry but still think he looks a fairly sure ew against the unproven fav.
Picked a hard race there WR,did like A Decent Excuse run over fences last time but not too sure is the ground in his favour and leaving him,trappy card GL.

Chute hall and caoimhe's delight both look very solid in the 2.45 and and 4.15 races. Both are odds on but should be hard to beat.

Chute hall is a p2p winner who finished 3rd @ Listowel when backed off the boards. His last run was very good when finishing second to faugheen and that run is easily thebest piece of form in the race. Polish Partisan could be the one to give him most to do.

Caoimhe's Delight's last three runs have been very admirable has finished in front of her main market rival backinthere on her last two runs. She has only ran once over 3 miles when she disappointed but her last run suggested the step up in trip could suit.

**** are paying and enhanced price of 9/4 for the double and that good enough for me.

Hardly an inspiring card,plenty of similar cards over next couple of weeks.
Decent prize money at Naas on Sunday for the PP sponsored races but there won't be many runners.

Think I'll keep my powder dry today, but you can picture the scene if Drive On Locky was to win the parade ring surrounded by Tribesmen with pierced noses and spears in hand whooping and hollering well done Philip you da man....

You can always be a part of it by doing a small ew on him Silver.

Agree Pa looks an ew bet to nothing with 4 places up for grabs.

One bet at thurles for myself today,Morney Wing here in the bumper,

Not a traditional Thurles day so unsurprisingly a small crowd,savage weather also.

An air of sadness around the place as it seems the main man will shortly be breathing his last.

An incredible performance by Isleofhopendreams Ruby Walsh only mount of the day,nearly two years since he was on a racecourse.
Despite not travelling too well early on this fellow won with stones in hand,wonder how the Irish handicapper arrived at that mark.
Willie Mullins record with horses he takes over is stunning and for me somewhat troublesome.

I don't like slagging a young amateur but See Double You was a certainty beat.

Morney Wing hated the ground in the bumper,he will improve for better ground but that was a terrible bumper.

Was going to say the exact same thing about See Double You. Travelled through the race extremely well, but the rider was constantly reorganising him, particularly after obstacles and it just killed his momentum.