Tarfasha team hopeful of a home win in Oaks

Dermot Weld feels being on home soil gives Tarfasha a favourite’s chance in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh today.

Tarfasha team hopeful of a home win in Oaks
Sat, 19 Jul, 2014 - 01:00
Colin Wilson

The Investec Oaks runner-up heads the market for Classic glory after owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum decided not to run Epsom heroine Taghrooda and save her for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Weld will have been heartened by the prospect of little further rain ahead of the big race.

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