Side with Slipper
The daughter of Verglas produced a career best effort at Naas nine days ago and, if stripping in the same shape, will now prove hard to beat. That Naas race was a Listed event and the selection emerged with great credit, given how badly drawn she was.
Slipper Orchid came out of stall 13, in a 14-runner affair, and was always fighting a losing battle.
She was soon shuffled back through the field, as those on her inside forged on, and was last approaching the turn in.
But the five-year-old stayed on in fine style in the straight and was doing all of her best work at the end, finishing a length and three quarters second behind Dermot Weld’s highly regarded Tested.
David Wachman’s Photo Call can land the seven furlongs Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden.
She was a trifle free in the early stages, and then failed to get home, when a well-beaten third behind Maskoon and Table Rock over a mile at Navan.
Down in trip and down in class should now work the oracle for the daughter of Galileo.
Tony Martin’s Pyromaniac, successful at Leopardstown on Friday night, makes a quick reappearance in the Book Your Hen Or Stag Party At Fairyhouse Handicap and has to get the vote.
