Next Week looks poised to go one better
Jimmy Mangan's seven-year-old, one suspects, has had his problems and this will only be his second appearance on the racecourse and his third in all.
He began life by winning a point-to-point at Kirkistown in Co Down in February of last year and was then missing until reappearing on this track 24 days ago.
To say the Topanoora gelding performed with promise would be an understatement. He ran a cracker to finish four and a half lengths runner-up behind last week's Galway Hurdle hero, Bahrain Storm.
Behind in fifth was Washington Lad, subsequently third to Ballyholland in the Galway Plate, while the sixth, Teach Nua, won a maiden hurdle at Galway.
The Group 3 Ladbrokes' Give Thanks Stakes may fall to Aidan O'Brien's Perfect Truth, the mount of Johnny Murtagh from three possibilities.
She has her sights considerably lowered, after contesting the Oaks at Epsom, where she was just beginning to struggle when badly hampered with over two furlongs to go.
Prior to that, the daughter of Galileo made all the running to beat a useful horse in Phillipina in a Listed event at Chester.
Behind in third that day was John Oxx's Roses For The Lady, who has since chased home Sariska in the Irish Oaks at the Curragh.
The Listed Platinum Stakes may be best left to Jim Bolger's Oh Goodness Me.
She handles soft ground really well and is down in class, having finished fifth to Sariska in the Irish Oaks at the Curragh last time.
