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Top bumper performer; won Leopardstown Grade 2 (2m, soft) in February last year; good third behind Bambino Fever at the Punchestown festival next time; beaten 9l by Koktail Brut (now rated 140) at Punchestown on hurdling debut; something surely amiss when tailed off at Navan last time (2m, soft to heavy); big chance if bouncing back.

Showed promise when third behind the useful paid of Predator's Gold and Mossy Fen Park in a maiden hurdle over an extended 2m3f at Punchestown in 2023; returned from over two years on the sidelines when tailed off here in a bumper in January; much better effort at Punchestown last time when a 4.5l fourth behind stable first-string Straight John; Kennedy takes the reins now.

Shaped well on bumper debut when 50-1 at Fairyhouse in April last year, finishing seventh of 17; kept on for a 21l fifth here in January (yielding); upped to an extended 2m2f back here last time when beaten 27l into second by Jalon d'Oudairies; Umpire's Call was 5.5l behind him in third day that and won on handicap debut next time; solid but others perhaps more talented.

Failed to complete either point-to-point; beat very few rivals at huge odds in two m'den hurdles

Soundly beaten in three 2024 starts; returns from a lengthy absence now; hard to recommend.