Former jockey and leading Irish racing pundit Fran Berry marks your card ahead of the action at Cork today.<\/p>\n
All eyes on Cork today given the action being taken in Britain and we have some big fields and nice two-year-old contests on offer.<\/p>\n
Ger Lyons’ STRIKE ZONE produced a very eyecatching debut performance when taking on experienced rivals at Navan a couple of weeks ago and he can land the Coolmore Stud Gleaneagles Irish EBF Maiden for colts and geldings.<\/p>\n
The son of Mehmas made good inroads in the last 50 yards on debut, shaping like a future winner, and the first and second had ratings in the 80s so it was a cracking effort really.<\/p>\n
Steps up from five furlongs to six furlongs will suit the selection and prices around the even-money mark of bigger are worth snapping up as market rival Charles Fort was a bit disappointing last time.<\/p>\n
HELLORHIGHWATER is a similar sort of price for the William Hill Gold Weekend Starts 8am Friday Maiden and I thought he could be a fair bit shorter to be honest.<\/p>\n
Gavin Cromwell’s gelding ran into a horse with a good level of form on debut at Limerick, shaping well having travelled strongly throughout.<\/p>\n
It was a highly satisfactory start and a little over two weeks later at Killarney he emerged with plenty of credit again given the winner Iron Fist had the run of things on the front end.<\/p>\n
Hellorhighwater ran on inside the final furlong to go down by less than a length, proving himself on soft ground in the process.<\/p>\n
Given the promise of each of those two runs, there should be more to come and with the benefit of a two-month absence since he was last seen, he’ll be very hard to beat.<\/p>\n
Published at 1212 BST on 10\/09\/25<\/p>\n
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