Owega can star
A solid stayer and mud-lark, he performed promisingly at Killarney last time when beaten a length into second place by Shanpallas.
His biggest worry would have been White Star Line, but that horse got into yesterday’s Kerry National as third reserve and it is surely most unlikely will be asked to run again so soon.
Archie Meade and Clonbanan Lad are interesting challengers, but Owega Star will arrive in good shape and this represents a decent opportunity.
Jim Bolger’s Fulminata is fancied to become the first dual winner of the week in the Speedy’s Bars Moyvane and Ballylongford Handicap.
She was proving very disappointing, until streaking away with a maiden to the tune of six lengths here on Monday.
Fulminata reappears under a mandatory 5lbs penalty, but goes up by 14lbs in the future.
Add in that the three-year-old will now be partnered by a 7lbs claimer and her claims are obvious.
Paul Hickey’s Deep Speed is the one to beat in the Greenville Maiden, having chased home Aidan O’Brien’s Victory Song at the Curragh last time.
Willie Mullins’ Wicklow Brave gets the vote in a competitive little eight-runner Helena Sheahan Memorial Bumper.
He battled on strongly at the Galway festival to hold Dermot Weld’s Marty’s Magic by three parts of a length.
Marty’s Magic has since been beaten twice, but the credit side is that the third at Galway, Top Of the Ra, reappeared at Ballybrit six days later and won by six lengths.
