Cocktail Hour can get off the mark

The mildly frustrating Cocktail Hour can get off the mark at the fourth attempt in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Median Auction Fillies Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

Frustrating she might be, but the daughter of Notnowcato has run three solid races, the latest coming when failing to reel in the front-running Wholelotofrosie in very testing conditions at Galway last month.

Indeed, all of the selection’s outings have come when there was plenty of cut in the ground and it is surely in her favour that she will now get to compete for the first time on a decent surface.