April looks a good battler and napped to come good

YOU cannot imagine too many patrons making the effort to get to Gowran Park tonight, given that four of the seven races are essentially impossible to solve handicaps, three of them particularly low grade.

Dermot Weld’s April is a hopeful nap choice to land one of the non handicaps, the Irish Stallion Farms' EBF Maiden. She is bred to be a more than useful sort, by Rock Of Gibralatar out of Agnetha, and still has plenty of time to get her act together.

The selection reappeared at Naas, appropriately in April, but was light enough in the market. She looked the most likely winner for most of the straight, however, but was eventually grabbed in the final stride and beaten a short head by Vaticano.