Baron can lord it over rivals
The twice-raced son of Green Desert looks a colt with a future and gets the nap. He started at the Curragh in August, finishing 9th of 25 behind Perfect Polly.
Hanoverian Baron then reappeared two weeks later, at Leopardstown, and showed the benefit of that initial outing.
In what looked a decent contest, he was beaten a short head into second place by Dermot Weld’s newcomer, Casual Conquest.
The selection was a trifle unlucky, in that he had to be switched to launch his challenge, and the form was boosted with the subsequent success of the fourth, Houston Dynimo.
Colm Murphy’s Megans Joy has to get the vote in the mile and a half Park Inn Hotel Maiden for older horses.
Absent for 137 days, one assumes she is having a spin on the level as preparation for the Punchestown Festival next week.
If that is the case then this high-class mare has to nearing peak fitness and there is every chance will prove far too good for this opposition.
Megans Joy hasn’t been seen since taking fourth behind Muirhead in the Grade 1 Royal Bond Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse in early December.
The testing ground then was all against her, but she still emerged from the contest with great credit.
Prior to that Megans Joy had won five races in-a-row, two bumpers and three over flights.
Dimenticata has a minimum of 14lbs in hand of her opponents in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Race and is an automatic choice.
She failed to win last season, but kept good company, including when runner-up behind Finsceal Beo in the Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh.
