Top Irish expert Fran Berry looks ahead to today's Curragh card and highlights two horses for close consideration.
Racing betting tips: Monday May 1
1pt win Bold Discovery in 2.25 Curragh at 9/2 (General)
1pt e.w. Secret Magician in 4.45 Curragh at 15/2 (Sky Bet 1/5 1,2,3,4,5,6)
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A good card at the Curragh today featuring Aidan O'Brien's Luxembourg making his return to action in the Group 2 Mooresbridge Stakes along with some respectable Classic trials.
In the Listed Tetrarch Stakes Luxembourg's stablemate Paddington is odds-on favourite and he's backed up by Drumroll under Wayne Lordan, and both of them look likely to handle the soft conditions well enough.
Paddington could prove different class but at the prices I'm certainly drawn to Jessica Harrington's BOLD DISCOVERY, an impressive winner on debut at Naas last September before posing a creditable third to Cairo at Leopardstown.
He shaped very well in the 2,000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown in early-April, when he was quite fresh before the start, looking a big, aggresive colt and very much in need of the run.
He ran extremely well in the circumstances, finishing second to Hans Andersen, shaping nicely and not being knocked about. If he's a bit more relaxed before the race and does everything right today, he should appreciate the step up 1m and I'll take him as a value alternative to the favourite.
Elsewhere on the card, SECRET MAGICIAN makes plenty of each-way appeal in the 7f handicap at 4.45.
He was a course winner over 6f here last year and subsequent to that he ran very well on his next three course starts including a close third and a close second.
On seasonal debut at Cork last month, he travelled strongly but on that occasion there was severe headwind and anything that tried to make the running, or didn't sit in behind the main pack, faded out of things in the main.
He should improve a lot for that return to action and is back on a track we know he likes.
Published at 0920 BST on 01/05/23
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