The five-year-old has been off the track since December but, having faced stiff opposition in winter bumpers, he’s difficult to oppose in the Loughnagore Flat Race, if he copes with tonight’s good ground.
Attribution is trained by Henry de Bromhead, who will be represented by Special Tiara (Celebration Chase), Grand Jesture (Bet 365 Gold Cup) and Home Farm in Sandown tomorrow.
And, if he can reproduced either of his seconds to Willie Mullins-trained animals, Bellshill (in Thurles) or Bordini (Navan), he should make short work of tonight’s opposition.
In Kilbeggan’s chase action, Mallards In Flight, a winner in Clonmel before being touched off by Aurora Bell in Fairyhouse, appeals in the Sean Hughes Memorial Handicap Chase while Jessica Harrington’s Fresh By Nature, a faller on her chasing bow in Wexford, might be the solution to the mares beginners chase.
Meanwhile, Aidan and Joseph O’Brien, in double form with Washington DC and King Of Aragon in Tipperary last night, might strike with another maiden Kilimanjaro in tonight’s finale in Dundalk.
This colt showed distinct promise when sixth to Intransive in a Gowran maiden, which produced plenty of winners, in September. And, if he’s strong in the market, he should prove tough to beat.
In Tipperary, Aidan suggested that Washington DC, an effortless, 4/9 winner of the two-year-old maiden, “is a Marble Hill/Norfolk Stakes type” while suggesting King Of Aragon will take his chance in one of the upcoming Derby trials.
O’Brien runs recent Limerick winner The Happy Prince in tonight’s feature, the one-mile Irish Stallion Farms Race.
Sure to improve, he has definite prospects, but might struggle against David Wachman’s classy filly Queen Nefertiti and the Dermot Weld-trained Postulation, runner-up to subsequent Derby trial winner Success Days in Cork and expected to benefit from tonight’s faster surface and a first-time visor.
