Quartz can show right spirit in sprint

English challenger Spirit Quartz can provide the answer to the Listed five furlongs Woodlands Stakes at Naas this afternoon.

Traditionally sprinters from across the water are generally better than ours and, hopefully, at least from a punting point of view, that will again prove the case.

The son of Invincible Spirit was a winner four times in his native Italy and has been seen just once in Britain, on the all-weather at Lingfield. Not much went right for him that day. He was slowly into stride, soon at the tail of the field and then had to challenge widest of all in the straight.