Weekend racing tips: Swan Bay can continue on upgrade in Beresford Stakes

Swan Bay and Shane Crosse win the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden. Picture: Healy Racing.

The Group 2 Alan Smurfit Memorial Beresford Stakes on today’s card in the Curragh looks to be a decent renewal, and Swan Bay can give Joseph O’Brien, who won the race three times as a jockey, a first win in the race as a trainer.

The colt was unlucky on debut, in a maiden won by Cowboy Justice, but went one place better with a really taking performance earlier this month at Galway. He and Anchorage went quick from the outset, and it is a credit to the winner that he was able to pull away close home to win by five lengths.