P2P.ie comment: It may have taken Royal Rendezvous three attempts to get off the mark, however he can be considered unlucky not to have entered the winner’s enclosure at an early point. Fourth on debut at Oldstown in February behind subsequent Horse & Jockey winner of one victor Jack Devine and Carefully Selected who won a Monksgrange maiden by a distance in recent weeks, this King’s Theatre gelding was a faller two-out at Borris House when holding a slight advantage in late February. De Rasher Counter, whom he was in front of at the time, has since franked the form by taking a Clonmel Bumper. Well-supported on his third and final start to date, Royal Rendezvous always travelled well throughout and could be called the likely winner some way out. A naturally pacey type, he has the gears to land a Bumper in the near future.