13:55 Naas

Sunday 9 April 2017

All13:5514:2514:5515:3016:0516:4017:10

Irish Stallion Farms E.B.F. Maiden

Off time: 13:56 | Winning time: 1m 2.95s

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(3)

Castrogiovanni

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: G P Halpin⁽³⁾| T: P Harney

33/1

Unraced Approve gelding. Half-brother to three winners, most notably winning sprinter-miler Money Trader. Worth a check in the market on debut.

Form: 0

(10)

Diamond Heartbeat

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: S Foley| T: A Keatley

14/1

Unraced son of Fast Company. Purchased for €13,000 as a yearling in September and out of a maiden mare. Trainers only previous two-year-old runner this season finished second and one to note in the market for 2016's winning trainer.

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(11)

Guessthebill

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: C R King| T: J P Murtagh

16/1

Unraced son of sprinter Reckless Abandon. Dam successful over both 6f and 7f and sire a Group 1 winning juvenile. Likely to play a leading role here based on breeding.

Form: 2

(8)

Legatum¹⁴

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: Rory Cleary| T: B W Duke

66/1

Finished last of 11 having attempted to race prominently here two weeks ago. Probably best watched on his second outing.

Form: 0

(2)

Moltoir

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: K J Manning| T: J S Bolger

7/1

Unraced son of Vocalised. Half-brother to 1m2f winner Brightly Shining and worth a check in the market on his first appearance on the racecourse.

Form: 80

(4)

Natty Dresser

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: Gary Carroll| T: Ms S Lavery

33/1

Unraced son of Dandy Man. Half-brother to 7f winner Truffles, yard have a 9% strike-rate in juvenile races on turf (7/78) in recent years but likely best watched here.

Form: 7

(7)

Sebastiano Ricci

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: D O'Brien⁽³⁾| T: J P O'Brien

9/4

Unraced son of Lope De Vega. Cost connections 80,000 gns as a yearling. Dam placed over 1m3f as a three-year-old. Likely to be better over further in time but worth a check in the market on debut.

Form: 5-

(6)

Sioux Nation

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: R L Moore| T: A P O'Brien

2/1

Unraced son of Scat Daddy. Dam a winner of her sole career start in a 6f contest. Sire gets plenty of speedy two-year-olds, many of them precocious and likely to prove very hard to beat in this.

Form: 32

(9)

T For Tango

Age: 2| Weight: 9-5| J: P J Smullen| T: J Nash

5/1

Unraced son of Zoffany who cost €80,000 at the sales in September 2016. Dam unraced half-sister to a couple of useful 7f-1m performers and market support would be noteworthy.

Form:

(1)

Damselfly

Age: 2| Weight: 9-0| J: Anastasia O'Brien⁽³⁾| T: J P O'Brien

16/1

Unraced daughter of Power. Full-sister to Sevenfold, placed on debut as a two-year-old in 2016 and out of a dam who was twice a winner over an extended 1m2f.

Form: 65

Non-Runners

(5)

Mount Wellington

Weight: 9-5| Age: 2

T: A P O'Brien J: Unknown Jockey

Forecasts

Sioux Nation (2/1), Mount Wellington (2/1), Sebastiano Ricci (9/4), T For Tango (5/1), Moltoir (7/1), Diamond Heartbeat (14/1), Guessthebill (16/1), Damselfly (16/1), Natty Dresser (33/1), Castrogiovanni (33/1), Legatum (66/1)

Trainer Aidan O'Brien has won this twice in recent years and his SIOUX NATION can provide him with a first juvenile winner of the season in this opening contest. The selection is a son of the late Scat Daddy who has produced a number of precocious two-year-old's including a number of Royal Ascot winners and the colt can make the perfect start to his career by taking this. Moltoir can claim second for a stable who took this race in 2015 while Guessthebill is speedily bred and can claim third.