Highway can put the Wind up rivals again
The daughter of Street Cry is a class act, although she wouldn’t want the surface to get too testing.
The heavy ground found her out in the Irish Oaks at the Curragh in July, when finishing third behind two English invaders, Great Heavens and Shirocco Star.
Prior to that, Princess Highway, on much better ground, produced a sparkling display in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot, beating The Fugue by six lengths, with Shirocco Star a short head away in third.
The useful La Collina, just 4lbs wrong with the selection, is even less likely to handle soft ground, which leaves the only three-year-old in the field, Rehn’s Nest.
She seems more than happy in the mud, but has 14lbs to find with Princess Highway and that looks too big an ask.
Aidan O’Brien’s Hanky Panky is the nap choice in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden.
She too would like it far firmer, but looks better than this opposition and should prove hard to beat.
Hanky Panky was three parts of a length second behind Mizzava at Limerick on her seasonal debut, but the latter did the form no harm at all when a creditable third to Just Pretending and Hint Of A Tint in a Group 3 at Leopardstown on Sunday.
Kevin Prendergast’s once-raced Saakhen can beat four newcomers in the Fishery Lane Race over six furlongs, having finished with a flourish, over five, when a close fourth to Paul Deegan’s Fast In The Wind at the Curragh.
