One key runner from each of the six races on ITV4 this Thursday
Westerner Point
1.50 Clonmel
Clonmel Oil Service Station Handicap Hurdle 3m
A bumper week of racing on ITV kicks off with this competitive handicap in which Eoghan O’Grady’s veteran Westerner Point will be out to teach the young guard a lesson and improve his record of eight wins from 19 starts over fences. The 11-year-old goes well at Clonmel with two wins and a second from five runs.
Tomorrow Mystery
2.05 Taunton
Invest Southwest Handicap Hurdle 2m½f
It’s difficult to look past Tomorrow Mystery for in-form trainer-jockey combination Paul Nicholls and Harry Cobden. Cobden is enjoying his best start to a season and reached a half-century of winners at Huntingdon on Tuesday. The vast majority have been for the 11-time champion trainer, who has begun the new campaign like a man possessed as he looks to wrestle his crown back from Nicky Henderson, and few will be betting against the exciting Tomorrow Mystery gaining a fourth consecutive win over hurdles.
Shattered Love
2.25 Clonmel
TA Morris Memorial Irish EBF Mares Chase (Listed) 2m4f
Last year’s winner Shattered Love returns for this Listed mares’ contest. After that victory 12 months ago, the Gordon Elliott-trained nine-year-old was outmatched for the remainder of the season in open Graded company by the likes of Chris's Dream, Min and Al Boum Photo. She was a 21-length third behind The Storyteller on her reappearance in October and the 2018 JLT Novices' Chase winner could thrive back alongside the mares.
One Forty Seven
2.40 Taunton
Arthur & Peggy White Memorial Handicap Chase 2m7f
Irish Prophecy carries top weight for Paisley Park's trainer Emma Lavelle, but has five and a half lengths to find on One Forty Seven based on their Southwell run in July. The son of Beneficial, trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies, has failed to finish his last two races after pulling up at Stratford in September and unseating Sam Twiston-Davies at Fakenham last month, but will be an interesting runner if he can rediscover his summer form.
Cilaos Emery
3.00 Clonmel
Clonmel Oil Chase (Grade 2) 2m4f
Cilaos Emery's fledgling chasing career was put on hold last season as Willie Mullins ran him in the Champion Hurdle, where he was a creditable fourth, but the 163-rated chaser now returns to fences. Mullins, who was successful in this race with Douvan last year, has won it five times in the last seven years. Cilaos Emery should be well placed to follow suit having demonstrated solid chasing form last winter.
Miracle In Medinah
3.35 Clonmel
Prior Park Service Station Clonmel Handicap Chase 2m4f
JP McManus runs four in the final race in front of the cameras, including the Gordon Elliott-trained Miracle In Medinah, who could need a performance nearly as magical as the Ryder Cup achievement he is named after to win this. The nine-year-old is still a maiden over hurdles and hasn't finished in the first three since January 2018, but will have Keith Donoghue in the saddle.
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