Mimosa shows ability for top honours
Pale Mimosa gave trainer Dermot Weld his eighth win in the Seamus & Rosemary McGrath Memorial Saval Beg Stakes with a gutsy display at Leopardstown.
Pale Mimosa gave trainer Dermot Weld his eighth win in the Seamus & Rosemary McGrath Memorial Saval Beg Stakes with a gutsy display at Leopardstown.
Three-time Coronation Cup hero St Nicholas Abbey will bypass Royal Ascot and instead be targeted at the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at the same track in July.
Stepwise attempts to confirm the promise of his impressive reappearance in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Race at Navan on Saturday.
Trainer Paul Deegan is looking forward to seeing star mare Midnight Soprano make her seasonal reappearance in the Cork Racecourse Mallow Noblesse Stakes on 16 June.
Pat Smullen is hoping Pale Mimosa will prove an able substitute for Rite Of Passage in Friday evening's Seamus & Rosemary McGrath Memorial Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown.
The fast ground at Leopardstown may have stopped Rite Of Passage appearing in the Seamus And Rosemary McGrath Memorial Saval Beg Stakes, but his trainer Dermot Weld can still call upon Pale Mimosa.
Harry Trotter (7-2) just got the better of In Salutem in a thrilling duel for the Summer Family Day On 14th July Rated Race at Fairyhouse.
Fountain Of Youth is likely to be a very warm order to get off the mark in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden, which gets Tipperary's mixed evening card under way at 5.35.
Talitha Kum has her sights lowered for the Summer Family Day On 14th July Rated Race at Fairyhouse.
Trainer Kevin Prendergast hopes La Collina will be "hard to beat" when she chases a second Group One in the Oxigen Enviromental Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.
Stubbs and Sandiva booked their places on the Royal Ascot bandwagon with mightily impressive displays in their respective races at Naas on Monday.
Sandiva justified 7-4 favouritism with a winning performance in the Coolmore Stud EBF Fillies' Sprint Stakes at Naas.
Richard Hannon won the Coolmore Stud EBF Fillies Sprint Stakes at Naas with Newmarket 1000 Guineas heroine Sky Lantern 12 months ago and his Fig Roll forms part of a strong British assault on this year's renewal.
Marchese Marconi is on a hat-trick mission in the Croome House Stud Handicap at Listowel on Sunday.
Johnny Murtagh sent out his first winner as a trainer when Benbecula landed the August Festival 15th To 18th Rated Race at Tramore.
Sands Cove added a victory over fences to his previous successes in a bumper and over hurdles as he landed the Find Us On Facebook Beginners Chase at Tramore for the in-form Charlie Swan.
St Jean attempts to build on a pleasing return to action in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden, which gets the Tramore fixture under way at 2.30pm.
Jim Bolger's Dawn Approach heads a field of 12 for Saturday's Investec Derby at Epsom.
Tropical Mist (6-1) delivered on her promising debut performance when getting off the mark at the second time of asking in the Paulstown Fillies Maiden at Gowran Park.
St Nicholas Abbey faces only four rivals as he bids for a hat-trick of wins in the Investec Coronation Cup at Epsom on Saturday.