Side with Steinbeck

FROM Saratoga in America to the county of Kerry is the road travelled by Steinbeck, the likely favourite for the featured Listed Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes at Killarney tonight.

The son of Footstepsinthesand began the season with a high reputation and there had to be hopes at Ballydoyle that he might measure up to Group 1 company.

When Steinbeck started the campaign with a promising fourth to Canford Cliffs in the Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh there was good reason to believe such might very well be the case.