All Too Beautiful well capable of defying top weight
The daughter of Sadler’s Wells kept the best of company last season and looks well capable of defying top weight over, arguably her ideal distance, ten furlongs.
Certainly, she struggled to stay a mile and a half when runner-up behind Ouija Board in the Epsom Oaks and again when fourth to that brilliant filly in the Irish equivalent at the Curragh.
Her two successes last season were over today’s trip, in this race and a maiden at Leopardstown.
The selection rounded off her campaign in the ten furlongs Group Two Blandford Stakes at the Curragh with a creditable third to Monturani and Kinnaird.
On a poor card, Michael Halford’s Romantic Notion is fancied to take the Tattersalls (Ireland) Auction Maiden.
She had Thursday’s easy Tipperary winner, Mother’s Day, almost two lengths adrift in fourth place when second behind Waterways at the Curragh.
At the Curragh tomorrow, Roger Charlton’s Striking Ambition is difficult to oppose in the Key Of Luck Woodlands Stakes. This is a weak contest and the five-year-old showed what a useful sort he is, on his last visit to headquarters, when beating 16 rivals to land a Listed event in a canter back in October.
Down Mexico Way, who may have his own ideas about the game and blinkered for the first time, is the choice in the MD Betting EBF Maiden.
He was no match for David Wachman’s newcomer Fracas at Leopardstown last weekend, but this could well prove a lot easier!
The concluding MD Betting Maiden may be best left to John Oxx’s first-timer, Raydan, a well-regarded son of Danehill.
At Listowel tomorrow, Eric McNamara’s promising Practice Match gets the nap to win the second division of the Island Maiden Hurdle. He performed solidly at Limerick in early March when beaten two lengths into second spot by market rival, Wolseley Lady, and would have finished closer but for being less than foot-perfect at the last.
If Paul Nolan’s No Complications puts his best foot forward then he will be hard to beat in the Ballybunion Maiden Hurdle.
Well able to run a stinker, his length and a half second to ill-fated Captain Sunshine at Naas in February is easily the best piece of form on offer.
Coolnahilla, who has shown a liking for testing conditions and this track in the past, only has to reproduce his career-best effort, fifth to Numbersixvalverde in the Irish National at Fairyhouse, to go very close in the Jackie And Gene Handicap Chase.
