Miss Tapley ready to help O’Brien get off to super start

Trainer Joseph O'Brien. Photo by Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Some decent racing at both venues this afternoon, with the National Hunt fare in Tipperary and the Flat brigade descending upon Gowran Park. At the latter course, it could be a fine day for Joseph O’Brien, and he can get off to the best possible start by taking the opener, the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Maiden, with Miss Tapley.

The daughter of Phoenix Of Spain had one run last year, in a Galway maiden, and ran a superb race to finish runner-up to Tannola, who had two good runs under her belt prior to that victory. The form received a nice boost when third-placed Vassula Ryden, who runs in the second race on today’s card, ran away with a maiden on her next start.