FAIRY TALE A Golden chance for Weld’s charge to claim the spoils at Naas this afternoon

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rated as high as 98. His form last season included a fine second in a Newmarket Listed race which was won by the subsequent Group 1 winner Ventura Storm.

In addition Lyons and owner David Spratt have a brilliant record with similar recruits from Britain.

Keane is also tipped to take the opener on It’s All A Joke who ran respectably on his debut last week. In the Birdcatcher Nursery it could pay to side with Jim Bolger’s Solar Wave who has already won twice this season. This tough and reliable filly would have run well in a Navan Listed race last weekend only to be stopped in her run at a vital stage. She likes soft ground and six furlongs suits her well while her trainer has a tremendous record in this race.

In the first of the Listed races on the card Petticoat is put forward to strike for Michael Halford.

In the Bluebell Stakes is should pay to side with the fast improving Detailed whose triumph in last weekend’s Martin Molony Stakes earns her the vote.

The apprentice handicap is a tricky affair but Kandahari could prevail if he bounces back to the form that took him to a Gowran victory two months ago.