Irish Chorus seeks compensation at Ayr on Friday

Take out Royal Ascot and the Cheltenham Festival and there is no racecourse that Alan would rather attend than Ayr, especially at the two-day Scottish Grand National meeting,

Being born and bred locally, making the odd trip north of the border always tugs at the old heartstrings, and Alan can always be guaranteed to set his stall out to support the biggest jumps fixture of Ayr’s season.

Because of the dry ground, he is not taking up as many runners as usual for the meeting this year, and Irish Chorus is our only representative on Friday.

I doubt whether we have had a more unlucky loser this season than Irish Chorus at Doncaster last month, and we will be looking for compensation in the mares maiden hurdle, which has cut up badly, leaving her with only four opponents. Gavin Sheehan takes the ride.

Alan said:”Irish Chorus was absolutely bolting up when she fell at the last that day. She was ten lengths clear and just over-jumped, but she was in the process of showing us on the track what she does on the gallops every work morning. She did get a nasty cut between the legs from that fall, but she seems fine now.”

Our only runner tomorrow is Blazeon Five, who has a much shorter journey to tackle than Irish Chorus, in her case returning to the Flat for the two-mile handicap at Newbury.

Alan added:”We have given Blazeon Five plenty of time to recover from her two runs over hurdles. She only joined us in December and ran a very pleasing first race on her hurdling debut at Wincanton, especially as it was her first run for a year.

“We then took her to Chepstow at the end of January, and, though she found it very hard jumping out of heavy ground there, she still ran well to be second. I just hope the going is not too quick for her.” Rossa Ryan has been booked