Weekend racing tips: Perfect Thunder can storm home in fillies maiden

Leopardstown’s highlight is the Group 3 Eyrefield Stakes, which has attracted a very strong field resulting in a wide-open contest

Day two of four consecutive days of double meetings in Ireland. Leopardstown’s highlight is the Group 3 Eyrefield Stakes, which has attracted a very strong field resulting in a wide-open contest, but the nap comes much earlier on the card, in the shape of Perfect Thunder in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies’ Maiden which gets proceedings underway at the Dublin track.

Joseph O’Brien’s filly made her debut at Punchestown and had her rivals beaten all ends up until swerving violently left and forfeiting considerable ground in the straight. When her rider got her back on an even keel, she ran on strongly once more and finished fifth, beaten just a length and a half in all.