The Mark Prescott-trained Triple Dash brings an intriguing cross-sea element to today's Listed Harp Ruby Stakes, but one of the domestic game's hardiest performers could be up to repelling the boarder.

Free To Speak has to give weight way all round, but a rating of 108 testifies to the quality of the teak-tough seven-year-old.

A top-weight winner of last year's McDonogh at Galway, Free To Speak never got a blow in at Tiger Shark in this year's renewal, but ground conditions were hardly ideal for him.

On good to yielding going previously at the Curragh he humped 9.10 to a fine success in a premier handicap, and ran much better than his final placing suggests in the Hunt Cup at Royal Ascot.

Triple Dash has also travelled this year. He opened up in the French 2,000 Guineas, but banged his head in the stalls and finished a distant eighth to Sendawar.

A conditions win at Sandown came before he was overhauled close home by the Andre Fabre-trained Raucous Lad in a Listed race on very soft ground at Deauville.

He should be still improving, but there are some battle-hardened opponents ranged against him today.

Tiger Shark holds a clear chance again, especially if allowed to dictate from the front, and Moiseyev is another three-year-old who cannot be discounted on his third to Haami in the Desmond Stakes. Free To Speak, though, is marginally preferred.

The nap, however, goes to another Dermot Weld horse. Grand Ambition surprisingly held on to a race at Galway after carrying Omni Cosmo Touch half way across the track on the run in.

On appeal he subsequently had it taken off him, but after campaigning over a mile he should be suited by the three extra furlongs of today's maiden.

For a well-backed, odds-on shot, Grand Ambition worryingly looked beaten on the run in at Galway but fought back well and is hard to oppose here.

The three-time Golden Pages winner Graduated goes over hurdles today with Ruby Walsh on board, and given an adequate round of jumping will be hard to beat. An interesting opponent is Damancher who hasn't run for a couple of seasons, but who in 1996 beat the subsequent Irish Derby winner Zagreb.

The Lure colt Wagner is preferred to Theoretically in the opener, although the latter did finish only four lengths off Desert Sky on her debut, while the course winner Just A Playboy is the selection in the handicap hurdle.

Paddy Mullins's Jodi is an interesting runner in the last, but Folliday, costly up to now, is preferred.