Irish Eyes: The best Medicine

Irish Eyes previews the second day of Irish Champions Weekend and tries to unearth some value at the Curragh.

Recommendations

Nap: Best In The World, 2.35 Curragh

Next Best: Washington DC, 3.10 Curragh

Trixie: Medicine Jack, 5.25 Curragh

On a day that features four odds-on favourites, finding some value will be key and one horse in the Flying Five looks overpriced on all known form. 

That is not something that can often be said about the only Aidan O’Brien-trained runner in a race but it certainly looks the case where Washington DC is concerned. 

He won the Winsdor Castle over this trip at Royal Ascot as a juvenile prior to beating the Coventry winner Buratino when second in last year’s Phoenix Stakes at this track behind the champion two-year-old Air Force Blue.  The pick of his form this year has been just as good, if not better. 

Third at Royal Ascot in the Commonwealth Cup, a mere length and a half off subsequent Haydock Sprint Cup winner Quiet Reflection, he went on to contest the July Cup at Newmarket.  There he finished fifth to the outstanding Limato, beaten under than four lengths, a tremendous performance from a three-year-old.  Not only that but he was a mere neck off the King’s Stand winner Profitable and given the Clive Cox-trained sprinter beat today’s joint-favourite Cotai Glory by the same margin in that King’s Stand, that has to be significant. 

On his next start, Washington DC finished a neck behind today’s other joint-favourite (at half the price) Take Cover, when second in the King George at Goodwood.  His latest performance in the Nunthorpe can be …

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