Killarney tips: Sakti should prove tough to beat
DAY THREE: Wednesday is the last of the three days of Flat racing at the July festival in Killarney, before the National Hunt brigade takes over, and the feature race of the week to date is the Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Cairn Rouge Stakes. Picture: Healy Racing
Wednesday is the last of the three days of Flat racing at the July festival in Killarney, before the National Hunt brigade takes over, and the feature race of the week to date is the Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Cairn Rouge Stakes. It looks quite competitive, but the unexposed Sakti will be hard to beat if, as expected, the step up to a mile poses no problem for Ger Lyons’ filly.
While it could be construed as frustrating that she finished second on all three starts of last season, on debut she ran subsequent Group 3 winner. Brilliant to a neck, ran subsequent Group 2 winner and French Guineas third Vespertilio to a length and three-quarters on her second start and pushed Caught U Looking to half a length in a Group 3 on her third outing.
