Hat-trick looks on the cards for Psychedelic Funk
The Ger Lyons-trained Choisir colt has triumphed twice over this course and distance and, with more improvement likely, sets a decent standard in a race which his trainer won with Argentero last year.
Psychedelic Funk got the better of the well-regarded Bolger filly Bean Feasa on his debut last month and followed-up with a facile victory over previous winner Ambiguity less than three weeks ago.
Ridden by Colin Keane, he powered clear in the final furlong to triumph by six lengths last time.
A reproduction of that sort of display will make him tough to beat tomorrow, when his opposition will include two O’Brien challengers, Peace Envoy and Lundy, plus Richard Hannon’s Hakeem, a winner at 1/16 in Nottingham.
Successful in a listed event at Navan last time, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Washington DC, the mount of Ryan Moore, sets the standard in the Bar One Racing Lacken Stakes, a six-furlong event over six furlongs.
The Ballydoyle colt is rated just 1lb. superior to Jim Bolger’s Smash Williams, successful twice at the Curragh before disappointing in a Group 3 in France last year, but making his seasonal debut here.
Ger Lyons might kick-start his weekend by recording a first and last race double with Medicine Jack and Lustrous Light in Navan today.
Medicine Jack, third to Lundy on his debut at Leopardstown, faced a tough task in a conditions event in Newbury on his second start, when finishing sixth behind Mehmas, beaten in Sandown’s National Stakes on Thursday but still a leading fancy for the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Back in a median auction maiden he is the one to beat.
