Tropical Lady can set record straight
Michael Kinane replaced the injured Kevin Manning in the plate, but, unfortunately, found all the trouble that was going in the closing stages.
It was inside the final furlong before he managed to extricate the mare and, though she flew home, the damage was done and the front-running Solskjaer was still a head to the good at the line.
Manning remains on the sidelines and, with Kinane now claimed for Hamairi, Jim Bolger has turned to Pat Shanahan. Trust this experienced campaigner to get it right!
The great Vinnie Roe, following a shock defeat behind Windermere on this track in May, makes his second appearance of the season in the Listed Ballyroan Stakes.
He’s always been vulnerable over a mile and a half and may struggle to concede Two Miles West 18lbs.
The Ballydoyle colt has lots of scope for improvement and should be well suited by this trip, having failed by a length and a half to Barolo at Leopardstown over 14 furlongs.
Aidan O’Brien’s Mona Lisa is a confident choice in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden. She was well touted to make a winning start at the Curragh, finished fourth behind Cappa Blanca, but it took a long time for the penny to drop and she will surely be a different proposition on this occasion.
Zeroberto, who found a mile and a half on the short side when beaten by Lily Shing Shang at Galway, gets the nap in the Dalkey Handicap.
At Tramore tomorrow, Ruby Walsh has prospects of a double with Warrens Castle and One Night Out.
Warrens Castle, absent since scoring easily at Punchestown in May, could be too strong for likely hot-pot, Swordplay, a horse Walsh knows intimately, in the Mean Fiddler Organisation ’Chase.
One Night Out, unpenalised for taking a weak event at Cork last Sunday by 25 lengths, can shrug off top weight in the Killone Estates Handicap ’Chase.
Tasman, following a career-best four lengths second to Loyal in a Galway handicap, will be a popular choice for the Queally Group Maiden.
Preference, however, is for David Wachman’s Moydrum Castle, who goes from strength to strength over flights and showed all the right qualities when slamming odds-on The Posh Paddy at Cork.
At Tramore this afternoon, Rolling Home, who ran market leader Tyndall to a neck at Roscommon, has to get the vote in the Beaver Distribution three-year-old Maiden Hurdle.
The Castles, fourth to surprise winner, Babacora, at Gowran Park on Wednesday night, is the logical choice in the Guinness Median Auction Maiden.
