{"id":202340,"date":"2025-12-20T18:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202340\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:29:11","slug":"1505-thurles-20-december-2025-racecard-horse-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202340\/","title":{"rendered":"15:05 Thurles &#8211; 20 December 2025 &#8211; Racecard &#8211; Horse Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse silk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/images\/silks\/20251220thu150501.png\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>5\/2<\/p>\n<p>Useful winner at 16f in bumpers. 4\/1, good third of 14 in novice hurdle at Punchestown (21.9f, soft) 27 days ago. Tongue strap on 1st time. Likely has more to offer yet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse silk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/images\/silks\/20251220thu150502.png\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>22\/1<\/p>\n<p>Fairly useful hurdler. 2 wins from 5 runs this season. 8\/1, below form sixth of 13 in novice hurdle at Cheltenham (24f, good to soft) 56 days ago. Tongue strap on 1st time. Others more persuasive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse silk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/images\/silks\/20251220thu150503.png\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>4\/1<\/p>\n<p>Once-raced winner over hurdles. 7\/2, won 7-runner novice hurdle at Down Royal (22.5f, good to soft) on NH debut 50 days ago, driven out. Trainer going well. Remains open to improvement. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse silk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/images\/silks\/20251220thu150504.png\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>4\/1<\/p>\n<p>Promising type. Back from 4 months off when taking 8-runner novice hurdle at this course (22.5f, good to soft) 30 days ago, keeping on well. May well do better yet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse silk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/images\/silks\/20251220thu150505.png\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>7\/1<\/p>\n<p>Disappointed at Navan latest but had opened account over hurdles at Punchestown (20f) previously and must enter calculations here. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse silk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/images\/silks\/20251220thu150506.png\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>66\/1<\/p>\n<p>Lightly-raced maiden under NH rules. 6\/1, fifth of 12 in bumper at Naas (16f, heavy) 41 days ago. Switches from bumpers to hurdles. Significantly up in trip. Work to do. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse silk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/images\/silks\/20251220thu150507.png\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>40\/1<\/p>\n<p>Modest hurdler. Winner in bumper at Kilbeggan in June. Cheekpieces on for 1st time, creditable eighth of 18 in novice hurdle (20\/1) at Clonmel (19.4f, heavy) 18 days ago. Up against it. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse silk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/images\/silks\/20251220thu150508.png\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>6\/1<\/p>\n<p>Lightly-raced maiden under NH rules. Ninth of 14 in novice hurdle (50\/1) at Punchestown (21.9f, soft) 27 days ago. Looks competitive on form.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse silk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/images\/silks\/20251220thu150509.png\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>6\/1<\/p>\n<p>Lightly-raced maiden. Good fourth of 15 in handicap hurdle at Cork (24.2f, soft, 11\/1) 27 days ago. Booking of Kenneally a plus. Not out of things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5\/2 Useful winner at 16f in bumpers. 4\/1, good third of 14 in novice hurdle at Punchestown (21.9f,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-202340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}