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Stuart Crawford: “this looks a nice opportunity”

Stuart Crawford: has a host of chances at Newcastle on Tuesday

  PICTURE: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By David Ashforth 6:01PM 7 MAR 2016 

OH GOOD. Racing UK launches its high definition service this week, in time for Cheltenham. I hope that means I don’t need to bother to find my spectacles any more.

The strength of the Irish challenge has been hugely exaggerated. On Tuesday only four Irish trainers are making the journey across the Irish Sea and neither Willie Mullins nor Gordon Elliott are among them.

There’s a good chance that the four brave enough to have a go will have one winner between them but it’s difficult to see them having more.

There’s Stuart Crawford and Keith Watson at Newcastle and Willie Browne and Tom McCourt at Southwell. There are no Irish trainers at Exeter although there are several Irish jockeys.

There isn’t just one Crawford, there’s a whole gaggle of them. As well as Stuart there’s Ross, Steven, Ben, Edith, Robert and Kelly, all working away at Newlands Farm at Magheramourne in County Antrim.

The Crawfords are forever sending horses to race in Britain. They must be unique because since 2009 Crawford has won 77 jump races in Britain compared with 29 in Ireland. Maybe they use their own ship.

The stable does particularly well in bumper races which means paying attention to Dear Sire in Tuesday’s bumper at Newcastle (4.50). The four-year-old doesn’t look hugely appealing on breeding and his grandam was an apple – Granny Smith – but he did cost €16,500 last year.

Earlier, Crawford runs Nendrum in the novices’ hurdle (2.45). Until the seven-year-old ran at Ayr in January it would have been hard to find a good word to say about him, unless he’s always been kind to the staff.

At Ayr, at 33-1, Nendrum finished second to the very promising Lake View Lad. Less encouragingly, Lake View Lad won easily and the horses behind Nendrum weren’t very good.

In the same race, Keith Watson runs Glenbank King. Watson races sparsely from Killylea in County Armagh and had his first winner in Britain last month when Finea won at Musselburgh. Glenbank King is unlikely to add to the tally and neither is Celtic Thunder (3.15), a modest hunter chaser.

So it’s up to The Shepherd King (3.50), which is unfortunate because the 12-year-old isn’t an obvious candidate for success either. We can only hope and possibly pray.

That shouldn’t be necessary for Willie Browne’s Lifting Me Higher (2.55 Southwell) who won over the course and distance last month even though John Egan dropped his whip, possibly to make it more of a challenge.

Browne doesn’t train many horses at his Mocklershill base in Tipperary but he pre-trains a lot and was a pioneer of breeze up sales.

Lifting Me Higher is nicely bred, owned by Mrs Paul Shanahan whose husband is closely involved with John Magnier’s Coolmore operation and must have a good chance of following up off a 6lb higher mark. That’s what I think, anyway.

Tom McCourt runs two four-year-old maidens, Eye Glass in one handicap (4.00) and Mclovin Riverdance in another (5.00). The former is more likely to shine than the latter.

 

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