Figure fancied to land final

BETA FIGURE gets a hopeful vote in an open A5 Stakes final at Curraheen Park tonight.

A runaway 29.30 winner on his debut a fortnight ago, the selection didn’t start in the same slick manner when failing by a length to hold off Chicken Collins in the same time last week.

Open to improvement and better drawn on the rails (he ran from trap four last week), Beta Figure can reverse the placings.

The John Fitzgibbon trained Bananas created a favourable impression when carding a fastest of the round 29.15 last week but could find life more difficult from an outside draw this time.

Ghost, in the wars when third behind Bananas last time, is likely to progress and is another to enter calculations.

The Cork COBA A7 Non winners Stakes kicks-off and Egmont Beauty is one to note in heat four.

She was baulked when beaten at odds-on in February, going under by a short head in 29.84. As that was only her second outing and her first in over seven months, Egmont Beauty has considerable scope and can shrug off a trap four draw.