Aramon proves the ace in the pack for Team Mullins at Galway
‘He has to be a Champion Hurdle horse after that’.
Aramon gave the father and son combination of Willie and Patrick Mullins a second Guinness Galway Hurdle success in three years with a fine weight-carrying performance in the Ballybrit feature. The seven-year-old looked a class act as he followed up his triumph in the Grade Three Grimes Hurdle from five weeks earlier, having been second in the County Hurdle at Cheltenham in March. Sharjah, the winner for the Closutton team in 2018, has gone on to show he is better than a handicapper and Aramon too could do the same after running out a ready winner.The 7-1 chance was brought with a perfectly-timed run to challenge before the final flight and scooted clear from there to win by two and a quarter lengths from Hearts Are Trumps, with Petit Mouchoir in third and Olly Murphy’s British raider Hunters Call fourth. RaceBets halved Aramon in price to 20-1 for the Champion Hurdle, and the winning rider said: “He has to be a Champion Hurdle horse after that. He was a very good novice and a bit like Sharjah lost his way then, but his run off top-weight in the County and to win off top-weight here – it looks like he’s getting his mojo back. “That could put him up to 160 which puts him within 3lb or 4lb of the top horses in the land. I’d imagine it’ll be Grade Ones from now on.” He added: “He had 3lb more than Sharjah and that was good news for me – those big weights. “The race was run to suit him, the fact that it was good ground and they went steady. With a real strong gallop the weight would have told a bit more. “He’s better on good ground. He could be a horse for Far Hills in America, but maybe in a year’s time.”
“He’s a much better horse on good ground, but it didn’t look the strongest Grade Three contest. It looked a good opportunity for him so we decided to take a chance. “His jumping is his main attribute. Even at the second-last we were rolling down the hill, and I was longer than I ideally wanted to be, but we had to keep the revs up and he came up. “He was never going to lie down on me, he’s a fighter.”⚔️ POLISHED STEEL ⚔️@Robbie_Power_ guides @Jessica_Racing‘s star to glory to win the Grade Three Rockshore Novice Chase! ?
? @Galway_Races ?pic.twitter.com/jLEHGIvYnW — Horse Racing Ireland (@HRIRacing) July 30, 2020
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