Cleeve Racing's 2020 Jumps Ten to Follow Contents Welcome to Cleeve Racing's 2020 Jumps 1 Ten to Follow How to Set Up Your Free ATR Tracker 2 Captain Guinness 3 Latest Exhibition 5 Minella Indo 7 Easywork 9 Your Darling 11 The Big Getaway 13 Eric Bloodaxe 15 Third Time Lucki 16 Abacadabras 17 Welcome to Cleeve Racing's 2020 Jumps Ten to Follow These lists are primarily designed to whet your appetite for the coming season and a to have a bit of fun, it is extraordinarily difficult to make long range forecasts about horses, never mind the weather! We have tried to avoid the more obvious choices like Envoi Allen, Shishkin, Epatante and Al Boum Photo, and have instead gone for some that seem on the face of it to be a bit darker… although all of them could easily turn out to be top class! It is very hard to be confident about which 2021 Festival targets horses will be aimed at but we have tried to avoid those that are declared for multiple events and have come up with horses that are currently quoted at double figure prices for the races we think they are most likely to line up for. Why not set all ten up in a free tracker, there are plenty available and you'll get an email sent to you every time one is due to run so you can watch how they develop over the season. If you don't know, don't worry I'll tell you in the next section how to do it… it's dead easy! Anyway, we hope that you enjoy our guide and that it brings plenty of enjoyment and hopefully a few winners over the season. Best of luck, The team at Cleeve Racing Copyright of Cleeve Racing Limited 2020 Page 1 How to Set Up Your Free ATR Tracker Go to www.attheraces.com and either login to your account or register if you don't have an account. You can register for free and it]'s quick and easy to do. Once you are logged in click on the 'pair of binoculars' icon in the top right hand corner… this will take you to the ATR Tracker page. Click on 'search for horse' and add the name of the first horse in our Ten to Follow list. You will see that the horse you have just searched for has now been added to your list, now repeat for each horse in the list until you can see they have all been added. You will receive an email every time one of them is due to run to the email address you registered with… ENJOY! Copyright of Cleeve Racing Limited 2020 Page 2 Captain Guinness Age - 5yo (19 Apr 2015 b g) Trainer - Henry de Bromhead Sex - Gelding Sire - Arakan Owner - Declan Landy Captain Guinness starts our list and looks to be one of the most compelling ones to follow. He is relatively unexposed with just three runs under his belt and they all came in his first season over timber as a novice hurdler. He looks open to plenty of improvement this coming season, especially if the transition to fences has the desired effect and is very much one to keep on the right side during the campaign. Providing all goes to plan with him, the Arkle Novices' Chase will be his main season target. Having looked at the early ante-post markets, Henry De Bromhead's star youngster looks very decent value at odds of 20/1. A lightly raced five-year-old, he proved himself to be a horse with bundles of potential going forward with the ability to develop into a genuine Grade One contender for connections. He made his debut at Navan over 2 miles and was somewhat overlooked in the betting market being allowed to go off 20/1 and the outsider of the field. However he easily defied his double-digit odds with an authoritative seven-length success. He jumped safely throughout and showed a good turn of foot in soft ground to go clear from the runner-up Belfast Banter, with the remainder of the field well beaten in behind. His next stop was in the Grade Two Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle at Punchestown where he was a creditable second to Gordon Elliott's star Andy Dufresne. He still looked far from the finished article that day, being keen early and looking rather green. Having pulled his way to the front at the half-way stage, Rachael Blackmore was left with no other option other than to let her mount do things the hard way on the front end, but to his ultimate credit, he showed plenty of tenacity to make Andy Dufresne work extremely hard to get the better of him. The pair had a terrific duel over the final obstacle with Captain Guinness only going down by ¾ lengths at the finish, with a yawning 15 lengths back to the third. Copyright of Cleeve Racing Limited 2020 Page 3 Cleeve Racing's 2020 Jumps Ten to Follow On his next outing Captain Guinness lined-up for the Supreme Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival and was the subject of some pre-race support which saw him go off the 14/1 clear fifth favourite. Held-up mid-division, he was still travelling noticeably strongly and making eye-catching ground approaching three out until suffering interference caused by Asterion Furlonge diving to his right. Despite that, he was still able to travel as well as anything just behind the leaders going down to two out before having nowhere to go when the horse right in front of him Elixir D'ainay suffered a heavy fall and in turn, brought down Captain Guinness, who was right in behind. That was rather frustrating, but it might be a blessing in disguise for his longer-term ambitions. Based on his Moscow Flyer performance, he looks like he stays 2½ miles well so the JLT will also be an option. Whichever race awaits him at the 2021 Festival he will have a real chance to put his luckless run in the Supreme behind him. The Irish have farmed the Arkle in recent years, providing 5 of the last 6 winners and Captain Guinness can make a bold bid to emulate stars like Un de Sceaux, Douvan and Footpad and last year's winner Put The Kettle On. Update: Captain Guinness was pulled up early in his Beginners Chase when sent off as the odds on favourite, there is no news as to why so a watching brief is recommended. Copyright of Cleeve Racing Limited 2020 Page 4 Latest Exhibition Age - 7yo (10 Mar13 b g) Trainer - Paul Nolan Sex - Gelding Sire - Oscar Owner - Toberona Partnership One horse in particular put Paul Nolan's stable back on firmly back on the map last season, namely Latest Exhibition - who quickly developed into one of Ireland's best novice staying hurdlers and he certainly has the potential to become a real star for connections in years to come when sent chasing. His novice campaign saw four wins and three second placed efforts from seven starts all against top-class opposition, and there is every reason to believe this promising seven-year-old will be a force to be reckoned with when he goes over fences this season and if everything develops according to plan who's to say he won't be one of the leading Gold Cup fancies in 2022. In the races that Latest Exhibition finished second, he lost little in defeat, with the last of those coming in the Grade One Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle, for which the ground was by far the quickest he had encountered, but he overcame that question mark with an titanic duel up the home-straight with Fury Road and the eventual winner Willie Mullins-trained Monkfish who just got the better of him in one of the finishes of the week. He is a typically battle-hardened horse, who wears his heart on his sleeve, and with all things considered, I can envisage Latest Exhibition emulating his Grade One hurdles form when campaigned over fences. Latest Exhibition jumps very effectively, travels well and can knuckle down and show plenty of courage if he needs to battle. And it's great to see Latest Exhibition helping Gold Cup winning rider Bryan Cooper to resurrect his career last season after losing the number one role at Gigginstown and first pick of Alan Pott's horses, this horse might just emulate his blue riband victory aboard Don Cossack. Copyright of Cleeve Racing Limited 2020 Page 5 Cleeve Racing's 2020 Jumps Ten to Follow Paul Nolan will very much target him at next year's RSA Novices' Chase and his current odds of around 16-1 look very attractive indeed. He looks the type to keep on improving, especially with a set of fences put in front him and given his professionalism and mentality he has demonstrated he can handle the big occasions. The level of form he's shown to date, his ability to act on all types of ground and his undoubtedness toughness means he's a must for our horses to follow this campaign and Latest Exhibition certainly has claims to be one of, if not, Ireland's leading novice staying chaser this season. Copyright of Cleeve Racing Limited 2020 Page 6 Minella Indo Age - 7yo (18Apr 13 b g) Trainer - Henry De Bromhead Sex - Gelding Sire - Beat Hollow Owner - Barry Maloney Minella Indo representing one of Ireland's leading stable's, Henry De Bromhead.