Thursday, August 28, 2008

Irish racing today

Two Irish meetings this evening, with flat racing at Tipperary and a mixed meeting at Bellewstown. Heavy ground is expected at the former track, which stages two listed races today. The race for 2yo´s over 5 furlongs at 17.55 CET could go to British raider Senor Mirasol (Kevin Ryan/ Neil Callan), who ran well when third in the Prix Morny at Deauville a month ago. The dangers are CD winner Nubar Lady (Tommy Stack/ Wayne Lordan) and Call me Alice (Johnny Murtagh( who represents David Wachman, whose 2yo´s are currently winning everything in sight. The 7 1/2 furlongs race for fillies at 19.25 has attracte quite a large field. John Oxx is now in top form and can take thisd with the Aga Khan s Sharleez (Mick Kinane), just tpouched off in a similar event last time. Psalm (Aidan O´Brien/ Murtagh) and Kyniska (TracY Collins/ Pat Shanahan) look dangerous. At Bellewtown, the best race is thre handicap hurdle at 19.15 which looks wide open with 16 runners. Last-time-out winnes Schindler s Gold (Tom Taaffe/ Adrian Joyce) and My Valley (Pat Fahy/ Barry Geraghty) and top-weight Jubilant Note (Michael Murphy/ Ruby Walsh) are three for the short list