Vision to keep on improving
The vote goes to the rapidly improving Vision Of Grandeur, who will handle the ground and can produce a big run in his first excursion into this sort of company.
A useful juvenile, he is already a much better three-year-old and is unbeaten in three races this season.
The son of Grand Lodge began with smooth successes in moderate conditions races at Ballinrobe and Downpatrick and then took on handicappers at Roscommon last time.
Vision Of Grandeur again indicated he is a decent stayer in the making, shooting clear in the straight to score unextended by six lengths.
There are plenty of dangers, headed by Honolulu and Athenian Way. As a son of Montjeu, Honolulu should have no trouble with the ground and showed he is going the right way when outbattling the selection's stable companion, Westlake, at Leopardstown.
Athenian Way makes a quick reappearance, following her second to Nick's Nikita in a Group 3 at Cork on Sunday, but you would have to harbour doubts regarding her ability to handle the surface.
The mildly frustrating Dance The Classics, who split in-form Tamimi's History and Honolulu at Roscommon, is napped to take the Ballyduane Stud EBF Fillies sMaiden.
The opening Irish Stallion Farms' EBF Median Auction Maaiden is best left to Tommy Stack's once-raced Strait Of Mewsina, a creditable third to Going Public and King Of Westphalia at Leopardstown.
At Down Royal this evening Eastern Canal, third to Lyceum at Punchestown, in a contest which is working out well, can land the Asidua Maiden Hurdle.
