Fairyhouse & Dundalk tips: Messidor can take step up to listed level in her stride

Shean Glory showed enough in defeat in a recent outing to take Handicap Hurdle

Messidor can successfully  step up in class at Dundalk. Picture:Healy Racing.

Messidor can take the step up to listed level in her stride when she contests the Hollywoodbets Patton Stakes, the feature on this evening’s card in Dundalk.

Joseph O’Brien’s filly was just touched off on debut but disappointed on her second start, in Down Royal. She then made her all-weather debut and ran away with a maiden before following up in an auction race here in December.