Pixie the pick

Kevin Prendergast’s Pixie Hollow can land the nap in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Auction Maiden at Sligo tonight.

The daughter of Verglas ran with real promise on her debut at Fairyhouse and can be confidently expected to build on that.

Pixie Hollow didn’t enjoy a clear run over a furlong down, but stayed on steadily in the closing stages to finish a length and a quarter and a short head third behind David Marnane’s newcomer, Boom The Groom, and Willie McCreery’s useful, Colour Blue.