Calies set to confirm promise
John Kiely’s five-year-old was well touted prior to that outing and didn’t let his supporters down, scoring in the style of a very promising horse in the making.
He travelled on the bridle through the contest, before quickening up from well off the pace in the straight to score unextended by five lengths.
The bare form is ordinary. The second, Hitech Lass, could only manage a poor fourth at Ballybrit on Sunday, but the selection looked a horse of immense potential and is the one to beat!
Aidan O’Brien and Jamie Spencer can combine for a double with Hills Of Aran and Tumblebrutus.
The once-raced Hills Of Aran will surely come on plenty for his first outing at Gowran Park and gets the nod in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden.
A son of Sadler’s Wells, he was beaten two and a half lengths and three lengths into third spot behind Only Make Believe and King Of Tory, giving the impression there was much better to come. The form was boosted when King Of Tory subsequently scored easily at Down Royal.
The conditions of the Donnellys’ Of Barna Race are stacked in favour of the long-absent Tumblebrutus.
This full-brother to Giant’s Causeway put up his best performance last season when runner-up behind Mark Johnston’s Pearl Of Love in a Group Two at the Curragh.
He hasn’t, however, been seen since acting as pacemaker for One Cool Cat in the English 2000 Guineas at Newmarket back in early May.
Tumblebrutus will hardly lack for fitness and the likelihood is that he has been kept on the go at Ballydoyle, leading more highly-rated stable companions!
