Beauty the percentage bet in Challenge
If Fergus McIver, Von Jawlensky or Aliyfa manages to score then this will more than likely be a layers’ benefit.
Profound Beauty, Alandi and Yankee Doodle are the three on which to concentrate and there is little or nothing between them on recent running at the Curragh.
In a Group 3, Profound Beauty beat Alandi by a neck, with Yankee Doodle a head further away in third.
Alandi was a bit unlucky, in that he had far from a clear passage over a furlong down and was certainly going on best at the finish.
Yankee Doodle is one pound better in with both his rivals and, as an improving three-year-old, has to be fancied to produce another big effort.
Profound Beauty, however, was making her seasonal debut at the Curragh and, on the basis has the most scope for improvement, gets preference. The more the surfaces dries out the more confident one would be.
Kitty Kiernan, who is proving costly to follow, gets the benefit of the doubt in the Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes.
She was disappointing when only fourth to Alfred Nobel at the Curragh, but stayed on at the end and stepping up a furlong may be just what’s required.
Dual Gales is on a hat-trick, in the Londis Close To You Novice Hurdle at Killarney, but may not concede Pires 12lbs.
Tony Martin’s charge split two subsequent winners in Warne and Tribes And Banner at Listowel, prior to performing solidly on the flat at Royal Ascot.
