Agent Can Benefit From Step Up In Trip At Leopardstown

Colwinston and Urbanist ran very well on St Stephens’ day, but unfortunately not well enough to reward each way support. Both horses tried their best so I have no complaints on that front, but unfortunately Colwinston could only manage 4th, while Urbanist was 6th. I still believe that both horses will win races at some stage and they are ones to keep in your tracker for when the better ground comes in the Spring.

 

Tom Gibney is a shrewd operator.

Regular readers will remember me tipping up today’s selection last time out at Fairyhouse at 66/1 and he ran an absolute stormer in 5th. He stayed on strongly close to home in that 2 mile race, and upped in trip to 20f I think Agent Boru can go very close on ground that will suit at Leopardstown. Tom Gibney’s son of Brian Boru is yet to win under rules, but he has plenty of placed form in the book and he produced a career best last time out.

If there was an extra furlong at Fairyhouse last time I think he would have won going away. He got squeezed out and slightly outpaced at a crucial time, but when Moore switched him he absolutely flew home and he could have easily got 2nd at the very least. That was just his 2nd start of the season too, so he is going to strip even fitter now.

Agent Boru was raised just a pound for that excellent effort, and with Patrick Corbett claiming 3lb he is effectively running off 2lb lower now. Tom Gibney has gone a while without a winner but he only has a small string and Play The Game ran a nice race for him earlier this week. I think Agent Boru is massively overpriced at odds of 25/1 and he has to be worth chancing each way in a wide open race.


STEVOS’ SELECTION: 15.05 LEOPARDSTOWN-AGENT BORU E/W @ 20/1