CURRAGH trainer John Oxx has a good strike rate at Roscommon and will be wellfancied to collect with his three runners at the Midlands venue this afternoon.
However rival trainer Dermot Weld may be the one to upset the party with a double through the blinkered In A Rush in the opening fillies maiden and Vision Of Grandeur in the Property Partners Earley Auctioneers Handicap.
Shane Gorey's mount couldn't have won a recent conditions event at Ballinrobe more easily, and although he faces a stiffer test today, is preferred to Dashing Home.
Stable jockey Pat Smullen is going great guns at present and he takes the ride on the Moyglare Stud Farm's In A Rush in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF (Fillies) Maiden.
A beaten favourite on her latest, Weld's charge is preferred to the Oxx representative Difiya.
Mounthenry, from the Charles Byrnes stable, will be out to recoup the losses he sustained at Listowel last Sunday when pulled up a long way from home when he goes to post for the Niall Mellon Township Trust Novice Chase. He will need to leave that disappointing effort well behind him if he is to have a say in this argument and it may pay to side instead with the Michael Murphy-trained Jubilant Note, with Ruby Walsh in the saddle.
On the ratings Joe Crowley's Simply Majestic should be capable of stepping up on his recent third to take the concluding Roscommon Herald (Pro/Am) INH Flat Race at the expense of That's An Honour who cut out much of the running on his seasonal reappearance at Gowran Park.
Meanwhile at Cork, the locally-trained A Good Excuse holds most appeal in the Corkman Handicap Chase, while Paul Nolan's summer ground specialist Dix Villez can land the threemile Corkman Chase in the hands of Davy Russell. The jockey also gets the vote to complete a double aboard the Thomond O'Mara-trained Scot Love in the Fermoy Maiden Hurdle.
Cluain Arra was sent off to be covered by Vinnie Roe hours after her last win at her local track of Limerick and may be capable of following-up in the Corkman Handicap Hurdle. The ultraconsistent Dalucci ranks as the danger.
The former Ballydoyle inmate Giant Eagle has several good runs in bumpers under his belt and will be a warm order to take the corkracecourse. ie (Pro/Am) INH Flat Race for the father and daughter team of Tom and Adrienne Foley. Foretto may be the one for the forecast.
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