Bank on Billyford

BILLYFORD gets the nod to defy top weight in the five-runner Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Race over a mile at Dundalk tonight.

A particularly smart juvenile, he only has to run close to his best form to land this. The son of Lil’s Boy rounded off his two-year-old days with a cracking effort in the Group 3 Killavullan Stakes at Leopardstown at the end of October.

He finished a close third behind Aidan O’Brien’s Jupiter Pluvius, in a contest which housed numerous previous winners.