Mkuzi can take step up in class in his stride
Indeed, he and Fran Berry have live prospects of completing a four-timer. The duo’s Mkuzi gets the nap to land the inaugural running of the Listed Martin Molony Stakes.
A useful three-year-old, the son of Halling threatens to be an even better horse this season. He turned in a fine weight-carrying performance at Cork last time.
Mkuzi won a competitive handicap by three parts of a length, conceding runner-up Wensum Dancer a whopping 30lbs.
The form was made to look even better when third placed Nopekan, who was getting two stone from Mkuzi, went on to score at Gowran Park last weekend.
Oxx’s Rayshan is hard to oppose in the Events Parking Ltd Maiden. He has improved with each of his runs and this does look a weak contest.
Rayshan’s latest effort saw him prove no match for Handel at Leopardstown, going under by four and a half lengths. He faces nothing of that calibre on this occasion.
Alliata is another Oxx possibility in the Irish Stallion Farms Fillies Handicap.
Her comfortable defeat of Southern Style in a maiden at Clonmel is nothing about which to get excited, but she did impress with her attitude on that occasion.
David Wachman’s Uncle Tiny is the clear form choice in the Nash Beverages Maiden, but a mile round here does look on the sharp side for him.
He’ll still take plenty beating, but Oxx’s Teknash, a promising fourth behind Jakestar at Gowran Park on Sunday, is preferred, stepping up an extra furlong.
At the Curragh tomorrow, Aidan O’Brien’s Handel is fancied to make a fair step up in class in the Group Three Patrick O’Leary Memorial Gallinule Stakes.
Following a promising effort first time up at Leopardstown, he made no mistake with a clear-cut success, back at that track, and is held in high regard by connections
Once more we turn to John Oxx, this time with Johnny Murtagh in the plate, and Icklingham for a possible winning nap in the Joe Morrissey Maiden.
He’s no star, but appears to have the winning of this moderate event, on his head second to Indian Belle at the Curragh last month.
At Limerick tomorrow, Banasan is hard to oppose in the Supermac’s Summer Hurdle.
He finished a close third to Aine Dubh and Goldstreet at Punchestown last week and this won’t take much winning.
If Really reproduces her fine effort at Leopardstown on Wednesday night, where she ran the ultra-smart Royal Alphabet to three parts of a length, then she will go very close in the McMahon Excavations Stakes.
