Killarney's unique five-day July Festival gets underway on Monday, live on Racing TV, and our Irish racing expert Johnny Ward has pinpointed two bets.
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Killarney commences a unique five-day meeting on Monday, live on Racing TV, with County Kerry native Oisin Murphy making his appearance on Tuesday.
Donnacha O'Brien had a day to remember on Saturday, and he has a couple of runners at Ireland's most scenic race track. His father, Aidan, unveils a Dubawi-bred Colt out of Maybe (Capability Brown) – and he is not even the stable pick in the opening Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden (5.30)!
Note past winners of that race - Anthony Van Dyck and one Benvenuto Cellini. Oklahoma, the odds-on favourite, faces beautifully-bred rivals, and it illustrates the quality of Flat racing in Ireland even at so-called provincial tracks.
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7.00 Killarney: Grey Leader
This six-year-old won five times for Joe Murphy, and while there has been little apparent trace of winning potential for Robbie Burns, there are positives here.
The selection will be a decent price (12-1, at the time of writing), and he only has seven rivals plus jockey bookings suggest he is likely to at least beat stablemate Marta's Prince.
I thought he was not knocked about by Nicola Burns at Roscommon last time out, when he shaped reasonably well, and the key here is the handicapper suddenly dropping him 5lb.
He is becoming an attractive proposition, and the yard's horses often run well at big odds.
8.30 Killarney: Canon Law
Canon Law, available at 33-1 on Sunday, is rated a paltry 41, though it should be noted we had the anomalous victory of a horse recently at Leopardstown, no less, rated 39 (Yquem).
Canon Law has a good pedigree and he looked like he had one of these races in him at Naas where he suffered traffic issues, but kept on under a drive.
Joseph O'Brien won this race last year with an odds-on chance, and his Augusta Rock is noted in a race typically full of unexposed three-year-olds.