Irish Stallion Farms EBF Pat Walsh Memorial Mares Hurdle

14:31 Gowran Park Fri 02 Oct 2026 2m80y Good 7 runners

Mr Fox’s call

Gino Bella

SPECULATIVE Advised 5/2 SP 11/4 Est. 34%

🏆 WON

Mr Fox says

Gino Bella (SR:128, 5/2) holds the highest Saturday Rating in the field and arrives carrying the joint-lowest weight at 10-7, a meaningful advantage over top-weight Daboya (11-1) and Royal Hollow (10-11). The form string P-3113 shows three consecutive placings culminating in back-to-back wins, and crucially both GoingFit:+ and DistFit:+ confirm she handles today's good ground and 2m trip. The market has backed her in 19% since opening — the strongest positive move in the field — which corroborates the form signals and suggests informed money is on board. Alan O'Sullivan has a respectable 9% strike rate on a horse in peak form, making this a well-aligned package of SR, weight, going, distance and market. Each-way alternative: Royal Hollow. Main danger: Royal Hollow — Royal Hollow (SR:123, 6/5) has an outstanding Course:W1P3 record at Gowran Park, DistFit:+ confirms suitability to today's trip, the mark is down 4lb below her last win (MarkMv:-4), and a 7% market shortening confirms significant support — she's the obvious threat but SR:123 versus Gino Bella's SR:128 at the same weight is the edge that keeps her second.

Verify· #21014

Full result

Winner: Gino Bella (IRE) at SP 11/4. Mr Fox’s picks highlighted in gold.

1 Gino Bella Fox #1 Patrick T Foley · Alan O'Sullivan(5) 9/4
2 Daboya Fox #4 R Donohoe · Danny Mullins 17/2
3 Speisialta Fox #3 Anthony John Black · Darragh O'Keeffe 5/1
4 Likealightswitch Adrian Sexton · Harry Sexton(7) 12/1
5 Royal Hollow Fox #2 A. Slattery · Cian Quirke 6/4
6 A Law Of Her Own Emmet Mullins · Donagh Meyler 12/1
— Sopelana Cian Collins · Kevin Healy(7) 25/1

Top 4 — how each finished

1 Gino Bella 5/2 SP 11/4 🏆 WON
2 Royal Hollow 6/5 5TH
3 Speisialta 6/1 🥉 3RD
4 Daboya 9/1 🥈 2ND