Sweet Afton can confirm promise

SWEET AFTON, on which Michael Kinane is a significant booking, looks a safe wager to win the five furlongs Mallow Median Auction Maiden at Cork tonight.

Trainer Eamon Tyrrell has shown in the past he knows the time of day and this daughter of Mujadil has displayed distinct promise in two outings.

She started with a four lengths second to the very useful Leitra at Cork and then stepped up on that effort at Naas. Sweet Afton was beaten a short head and a length and a half into third behind Jim Bolger’s newcomer Modeeroch and Aidan O’Brien’s well-regarded Oh How Lovely and this appears the selection’s easiest assignment to date.