Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Race

Off time: 17:00 | Winning time: 1m 14.92s

(1)

Confident Star

Age: 2| Weight: 9-4| J: Shane Foley| T: Mrs J Harrington

13/2

230,000 gns foal, 240,000 gns 2-y-o. Dam, US 7f winner, half-sister to smart winner up to 9f Bell Rock. Yard can ready a newcomer and interesting to see what the market has to say.

Form:

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(2)

Dr Zempf

Age: 2| Weight: 9-4| J: Colin Keane| T: G M Lyons

5/2

Foaled March 14. 420,000 gns yearling. Half-brother to useful 2-y-o 6f winner Dancin Inthestreet. Dam 2-y-o French 5f/6f (Prix Eclipse) winner. Bred to make a 2-y-o and one to note in the betting.

Form:

(6)

Elliptic⁴³

Age: 2| Weight: 9-4| J: Gavin Ryan| T: Donnacha O'Brien

7/4

Promising sort. 3/1, won 13-runner maiden at Tipperary (5f, good to soft) on debut 43 days ago, readily. Likely to improve and she's the one to beat.

Form: 1

(3)

Hadman^t¹⁹

Age: 2| Weight: 9-4| J: Dylan Browne McMonagle⁽⁵⁾| T: J P O'Brien

11/1

Once-raced maiden. Tongue strap on, sixth of 11 in maiden (22/1) at Leopardstown (7f, good to soft) on debut 19 days ago. May well do better, but others more likely on this occasion.

Form: 6

(5)

Missing Matron^p1¹⁷

Age: 2| Weight: 9-4| J: K J Manning| T: J S Bolger| C

7/1

Course winner. 14/1, bit below form 6½ lengths third of 7 to Hermana Estrella in Fillies' Sprint Stakes at Naas (5.9f, heavy) 17 days ago. Now tried in cheekpieces and claims in calmer waters here.

Form: 1333

(4)

Rapidus

Age: 2| Weight: 9-4| J: Seamie Heffernan| T: A P O'Brien

7/1

Caravaggio colt. Typically well-bred newcomer representing top connections, and confidence behind him in the betting would look significant.

Form:

Forecasts

Elliptic (7/4), Dr Zempf (5/2), Confident Star (13/2), Missing Matron (7/1), Rapidus (7/1), Hadman (11/1)

The betting should be informative where the newcomers are concerned, but ELLIPTIC looked a good prospect when readily seeing off a couple of subsequent winners at Tipperary and, with better surely to come from this filly, she looks the way to go. Missing Matron merits respect back down in grade having contested a Group 3 last time, but debutants Rapidus and Dr Zempf may emerge as the main dangers.