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Irish Eyes: Trust in-form Weld
- Updated: August 28, 2016
Our profitable Irish Eyes column picks out two bets for today’s classy meeting from the Curragh.
Recommended bets
Nap: Eziyra, 2.40 Curragh
Next Best: Adool, 3.50 Curragh
Dermot Weld has his string in quite phenomenal form at the moment with five winners, a second, a third and two fourth places from his last ten runners, hence his runners are the obvious starting point for today’s classy meeting at the Curragh.
The first of his three runners, Eziyra, was deeply impressive when slamming Hydrangea at Galway, despite a poor draw on that occasion.
She did, rather ominously, swish her tail once she hit the front but as it was only her second run, we can give her the benefit of the doubt for the moment and put it down to greenness, particularly in light of how the form has worked out.
Hydrangea was a well backed winner of the Loder EBF Fillies race at the Curragh since and followed that up with a fast finishing head second in last weekend’s Group 2 Debutante Stakes here as well. Simply put, that is exceptional form to take into this Group 3 Flame Of Tara EBF Stakes. The John Oxx-trained Sea Of Grace beat Eziyra at Tipperary, and had another two of today’s rivals behind that day too, in …
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