Gowran Park Tips: Duke can lord it in opener
Champers Elysees can take step up in class in her stride. Picture: Healy RacingÂ
Gowran Park hosts this afternoon’s Flat action and Duke Of Mantua can take the opener, the Irish EBF Supporting Irish Champions Weekend Maiden, for Aidan O’Brien.
On debut, in a Curragh maiden won by stablemate St Mark’s Basilica, he finished a close third despite conceding experience to the winner and to runner-up Loch Lein. In another stride he would have been second and yet he was green and consequently wasn’t given the hardest of races.
