Rosebud looks set to go one better
Pat Smullen goes to York to partner Weld’s Pale Mimosa in the Galtres Stakes, so the Rosewell House maestro turns to up and coming Shane Foley to partner the three-year-old.
The selection ran badly on fast ground in the Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh in late May and was then given a decent break, before returning at the Galway festival earlier this month. Meeting her favoured soft surface, Yellow Rosebud was beaten a head into second by Lady Wingshot.
The latter got all of the breaks in that Listed event and Yellow Rosebud has every chance of reversing placings on 2lbs better terms.
Sugar Boy gets the vote in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Premier Nursery, having revelled in the testing condition when making much of the running to win a maiden at Galway.
The nine furlongs Mocklershill Stables Race is tricky, even if there are only five runners and one of them, Hittin’the Skids, is a no-hoper. The nod falls on Tommy Stack’s Parkers Mill, who is on a retrieving mission, having finished third of three, went off at 2-5, behind The Real Article and Golden Sunbird at Killarney in May. The theory is that the mile and six then was much further than he wanted to travel and, hopefully, the real Parkers Mill will arrive now, on a more suitable surface and dropping down five furlongs in distance.
At Bellewstown Shadow Eile is impossible to oppose in the McCabe Garage Drogheda Mares’ Hurdle, while Willie Mullins’ Connaught Manor should relish the three miles of the www.thetote.com Maiden Hurdle.
