Miss Beatrix looks good for openers
Kevin Prendergast’s charge is strongly fancied to cope with those who have already run and gets the nap with plenty going for her.
The daughter of Danehill Dancer was in good company at Tipperary eight days ago when beaten a length and a head into third place behind two well-touted first-timers in Ger Lyons’ City Of Tribes and David Wachman’s Rabatash.
That race was over five furlongs, she made her debut at the minimum trip as well, and the way Miss Beatrix was running on at Tipperary indicated this seven furlongs should be ideal.
It is also significant that the selection will now race exclusively against her own sex for the first time.
Two runs and two seconds is the record of Magicalmysterytour thus far and he has to be the choice to go one better in the Clonard Maiden.
The son of Sadler’s Wells was beaten by stable companion Talenti at Naas and then touched off in the final stride by Rockall Blizzard at the Curragh.
This is his easiest assignment to date and only House Of Bourbon, runner-up behind Magicalmysterytour’s stable companion Galileo Galilei at Tipperary last week, looks any sort of threat.
Pat Smullen takes the ride on English invader Misu Bond in the Group Three Ballycorus Stakes and the combination can do the business.
Misu Bond, a more than useful juvenile, has a touch of class and was far from disgraced when fifth to George Washington in the Newmarket 2000 Guineas.
