Downtown on the up and up

DOWNTOWN is fancied to continue Wayne Lordan’s terrific start to the season by landing the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Clonmel this evening.

The selection is bred to win a classic, by Danehill out of User Friendly, but showed little or nothing in one outing as juvenile, trailing home 11th of 15 behind Kissinthemoonlight at Roscommon in August.

She clearly did well over the winter, however, and looked an altogether different proposition on her reappearance at Cork earlier in the month.