Alberta poised to make his experience count

Alberta will be strongly-fancied to land today’s Downpatrick bumper, the Posh Nosh Flat Race, for Gordon Elliott and Nina Carberry.

The Choisir gelding made an encouraging debut at Cork in December, when runner-up to Paul Cashman’s Catching Shadows, which went on to triumph for James Ewart on his British debut at Musselburgh in January.

Trained for that Cork run by Turlough O’Connor and subsequently bought by Elliott, Alberta stuck to his task well up the Mallow straight and finished eight and a half lengths clear of the third.