RACING: Necklace has been installed a 7-4 favourite to provide Aidan O'Brien with a third Moyglare Stud Stakes success in four years at the Curragh on Sunday.
Victorious with Quarter Moon (2001) and Sequoyah (2000), O'Brien has three of the 13 entries left in Ireland's premier race for juvenile fillies, including Sequoyah's full sister Tu Eres Mi Amore who ran fifth on her debut at Tralee yesterday.
However it is Necklace, an impressive winner of the Group Three Debutante Stakes on the course earlier in the month, who dominates the Cashmans market with the dual-Ascot winner River Belle next best at 5-2.
The Alan Jarvis-trained filly was the sole supplementary entry into the race yesterday at a cost of €30,000. Clive Brittain's Menhoubah is the only other overseas entry for a race won by Mick Channon's Mail The Desert last year.
Dermot Weld's sole hope is the five-length Tipperary winner Misty Heights and the trainer confirmed yesterday: "The Moyglare is definitely the plan."
Cashmans bet: 7-4 Necklace, 5-2 River Belle, 7 Maroochydore, 8 Soviet Belle & Menhoubah, 10 Takrice & Misty Heights, 16 Moon Unit, 20 Bar.
Today's Tralee highlight is the Listed Carlsberg Ruby Stakes which has turned into an all three year old affair headed by Jim Bolger's Snippets.
The Stakes winner was an expensive supplementary for the Irish Oaks only to fade to eighth and is now dropped back to a mile.
Snippets' Pretty Polly form reads very well but the drop in trip could cost against Latino Magic.
This one recouped twice the €7,000 supplementary fee paid to get her into the Desmond Stakes when runner-up to Refuse To Bend.
The 2002 Galway Hurdle winner Say Again can get off the mark over fences in the Beginners Chase. Any sign of rain would be no harm to Kilmannin's chance in the first division of the mile handicap while Spin In The Wind may be the answer to the bumper.
