Back To Bid to appreciate stamina test
This will be the selection's first excursion on the flat and the seven-year-old can come through with flying colours.
Indifferent jumping has prevented him from fulfilling his undoubted potential both over flights and fences.
But Back To Bid has a real engine and is already the winner of two bumpers. Some rain wouldn't go astray for him, but in any case he will relish this stiff test and should take a lot of beating.
Aidan O'Brien sets a puzzle by saddling three runners in the Irish Stallion Farms' EBF Maiden, although riding arrangements would indicate that Alessandro Volta is the stable choice.
And he is ours as well, having shown distinct promise on his only outing to date when eighth behind Lisvale at the Curragh towards the end of June.
O'Brien runs a couple of newcomers in the Kilcarn Stud EBF Fillies Maiden, but they may not cope with Jim Bolger's Ard Fheis.
A failed gamble when only fourth to Divinitus at the Curragh, she may benefit from stepping up another furlong in trip.
The concluding Ledwige Maiden looks a woeful contest and perhaps it will pay to side with John Oxx's Sinntaran.
He went off a heavily-backed 1-2 shot first time up at Tipperary, but went under to Aidan O'Brien's Arcadius. Given lots of time to mature, maybe the Machiavellian colt will be a different proposition now!
