Improving Sea Coast ready to strike

Michael Halford is not having a great season, with only seven winners and a strike rate of just 5%.

Kings Ryker did the business for him at Roscommon on Monday, however, and his Sea Coast is the nap choice in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Naas tonight.

It has been a case of steady improvement for the daughter of Rock Of Gibraltar and she should now be ready to strike.

Sea Coast will arrive on the back of her best effort to date, over this course and distance two weeks ago. She was beaten a short head by Aidan O’Brien’s hot pot, Shell House, in a driving finish and can be fancied to build on that.

Sexy Legs, trained by David Wachman, gets the nod in the opening Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden for two-year-olds.

To be with her, though, we have to forgive a below par effort when a disappointing ninth behind Roger Varian’s Cursory Glance in the Group 3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Prior to that Sexy Legs shaped as a winner in waiting when beaten a nose into second by the smart Jeanne Girl at the Curragh.

Only four face the starter in the Boston Access Supporting Console Fillies Race and it may pay to concentrate on Colour Blue and Bilderberg.

Yulong Baoju is not to be trusted and the six furlongs journey, on what we know, is far too short for Calibrate.

Bilderberg is hard enough to assess, having beaten the unreliable Monsieur Power in a canter at Fairyhouse.

And that leaves Colour Blue, she would admittedly prefer a longer trip, who ran really well over seven furlongs when third to Sparkle Factor and subsequent Group 3 winner, Tobann, at the Curragh.

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