Dream can come true
Take the fare on offer at Tipperary tonight for instance, a popular enough track with punters in the south.
Four handicaps, among seven races, are really of no benefit to this racecourse and there is no incentive whatsoever to pay through the gate.
Handicaps are no use to struggling on-course bookmakers either, they will hold little or nothing in these contests, and it’s all a bit of a mess.
Aidan O’Brien’s I Have A Dream is the hopeful nap choice in the Follow @TipperaryRaces On Twitter Maiden.
The fact this is a somewhat belated seasonal debut for the son of Galileo is an obvious concern, but if the market speaks in his favour then he should land a modest affair.
The selection showed little on his debut at the Curragh in October, finishing a remote tenth behind John Oxx’s Call To Battle.
But three weeks later, this time at Leopardstown, he was an altogether different proposition, going under by a short head to stable companion, Thomasgainsborough, in a 19-runner field.
O’Brien can also take the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden with the improving twice-raced Parliament Square.
He made his debut at Naas in May and was beaten no less than fifteen and a half lengths when fifth of six behind the ultra-smart Dawn Approach.
Parliament Square was then taken to Royal Ascot last week and stepped way up on that effort to finish a close fifth to Hototo in the Windsor Castle Stakes.
In sixth was Richard Hannon’s Ask Dad, who gave the form a minor boost when scoring at Salisbury yesterday.
The follow Tipperary On Facebook Rated Race may have only six runners, but is very tricky, with all off them within 5lbs of each other.
The nod falls on the hat-trick seeking Stocktons Wing, successful of late at Listowel and Navan, who will revel in the likely testing conditions.
