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Preview for Friday's meeting at Wexford

Cabin chased home Epsom Oaks heroine Was on her debut and makes her belated reappearance in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden at Wexford on Friday.

The daughter of Galileo was disappointing on her only start after that Curragh introduction, and hasn't been seen since Fairyhouse in September, but Aidan O'Brien has given her a Group Three entry so she must be ready to do herself justice.

Hail is another Ballydoyle representative out to break his duck and does so on the back of a couple of fourth-placed efforts this year.

He steps up in distance for the Clonard Maiden, but this is a competitive event for its kind with All That Rules, Dante Inferno and Diyala just a handful of serious opponents.

Samantha Bell got a great tune out of Wot A Shot at Naas on Wednesday night and the pair are reunited in the Enniscorthy Handicap, with a 5lb penalty not expected to make life that much tougher.

Benefit Of Porter has been relatively freshened since her last-start success, which came at Tramore at the beginning of June, but she got the job done with authority and reappears off just a 5lb higher rating in the Slaney Handicap.

This near mile-and-a-half event carries the most prize money on the card so, as expected, is hotly-contested, with Akinspirit also arriving on the back of a victory, while Jim Bolger starts Eighteen Summers back off and Willie Mullins turns Luc Jordan out again quickly after Monday's Ballinrobe effort.

Mullins and Bolger lock horns in the Gorey Race as well, with Deustchland and Whisper Gently.

However, Ted Walsh's Paramount could be the one to beat because he found only Placere too strong when attempting to defend his Ladies Derby crown at the Curragh last weekend, and is obviously back on song.

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