Horse In Focus - Oscars Well

OSCARS WELL

• Oscars Well [1] was a very impressive winner of the Grade 1 Navan Novice Hurdle over 2m4f in Navan [2] at the weekend.  The 5yo who is trained by Jessica Harrington [3], settled nicely and was produced by Robbie Power two furlongs out and easily took it up to coast in for an easy victory.

• He beat Sweet Shock [4] by 8L, with Fully Funded [5] a further 11L back in third. It is made all the more impressive after his jockey said that he hated the tacky ground! 

• The Oscar gelding is bred by Eugene O'Leary and is out of a Placid Willow mare. This win makes it 10 Grade 1 winners for his sire Oscar but he is the first horse with any black type under his first three dams. 

• He was sold as a yearling at Tattersalls for €5,000 to Gerard Lowry. Then he he was sold to Tom Keating for €13,500 and then moved to J. Linehan as a 3yo for €8,000. Now he is owned by the Molley Malone Syndicate and they look to have an exciting prospect on their hands.

• He is entered in the Grade 2 novice hurdle at Leopardstown [6] at the end of January where he'll have to carry a Grade 1 penatly. That could be tough but if he were to win that, then he would look to have a leading chance in his longterm target of the Neptune Novices Hurdle at Cheltenham in March.