Gale Force Ten can make amends
The worry is that a lot of O’Brien’s horses have seemed to badly need their initial run so far this campaign, but the selection has a lot in hand, between 13lbs and 20lbs, on his five rivals and literally picks himself.
He mixed it with some of the best juveniles last season, finishing with a cracking effort in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket in October.
The son of Oasis Dream was beaten a neck and the same into third place behind Reckless Abandon and Moohaajim and, hopefully, will now strip reasonably well forward and in that sort of form.
The Mags Mullins-trained Cairdin is the choice in the two-mile www.thetote.com Maiden.
Cairdin was disappointing in a similar contest behind Pique Sous here in early February, but never got into a rhythm, is certainly far better than he looked then.
Peter McCreery’s Zeftan, beaten a neck into second behind Lonan at Dundalk last month, gets the nod in the one-mile www.thetote.com Maiden.
