Count poised to strike

Count Of Limonade should make it third-time-lucky in the opening Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Maiden in Roscommon this evening.

Aidan O’Brien is beginning to dominate juvenile action and Count Of Limonade, a son of Duke Of Marmalade, has shown enough potential in his two starts to suggest he should prove too strong for his four rivals here.

Unplaced, but not beaten far, behind stable-companion Lines Of Battle on his debut at the Curragh, Count Of Limonade was then sent off an odds-on favourite for a seven-furlong maiden in Leopardstown.