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Tipperary’s evening meeting features the Listed Abergwaun Stakes, in which all eyes will be on Sole Power.
Narrowly beaten into fifth behind the reopposing Invincible Ash in this contest last year, he subsequently sprang a 100/1 shock in the Group One Nunthorpe at York and proved that was no fluke when landing Haydock’s Temple Stakes.
Edward Lynam’s four-year-old faces no easy task on his Irish return, however, with Temple Stakes fifth Group Therapy reopposing on the back of a couple of promising efforts and Inxile, who is enjoying a terrific season, sure to make a bold bid.
The second Listed contest of the night ndash; the Coolmore Hurricane Run Stakes ndash; sees Aidan O’Brien’s pair of Furner’s Green and Battle Of Saratoga cross paths again after the former came out on top when the pair met on debut over this course and distance.
The manner in which the winner galloped clear that day marked him down as one to follow and he has a long list of big entries next to his name, while the fourth from that day, East Meets West, completes Ballydoyle’s three-pronged assault on the race.
Jim Bolger’s Somasach will be no pushover having held his own in Group company the last twice, while Leopardstown winner Dragon Pulse is another expected to put up resistance to the O’Brien trio.
Partner attempts to land the Dan Dooley Handicap for the second year running but has plenty on his plate against the likes of The Reaper, who wasn’t beaten far in a valuable contest at Newmarket’s July meeting, and the in-form Roicead, who is only 1lb higher than for his close-up fifth in Paddy Power Sprint at the Curragh in June.
The eight-race card gets underway at 5.15pm with the McGrath Oil Maiden, in which An Ghalanta bids to improve on three consecutive runner-up finishes, while stablemate Deire Na Sli will also be looking to build on a string of placed efforts by landing the closing Irish Stallion Farms E.B.F. Fillies Race.