SUNDAY'S MEETINGSDAVID WACHMAN might empathise with bus commuters this weekend because after waiting three years for a Group One prize his flying filly Again could secure the Co Tipperary trainer a second top-flight pot in a week in tomorrow's Moyglare Stud Stakes.
Last Sunday Bushranger landed the Prix Morny at Deauville under Johnny Murtagh but with Murtagh and Wachman's regular rider, Wayne Lordan, both suspended it is Séamus Heffernan who will team up with Again.
She is one of a dozen due to line up in Ireland's most prestigious prize for juvenile fillies which has the Group One stage to itself in Europe this weekend.
Among Again's opposition are her stable companion Marquesa, as well as a trio of runners from Jim Bolger's yard and a solo cross-channel hope, Baileys Cacao, who will attempt to become the first British Moyglare winner in six years.
All of those, however, look to have something to find with Again, who landed the Debutante Stakes at Leopardstown by three lengths on heavy ground earlier this month, shortly after she broke her maiden at the Curragh on fast going.
That versatility is always a plus and the bare form of that Debutante success very much makes Again the form horse going into tomorrow's €300,000 feature.
Wachman clearly has a fine bunch of two-year-olds this season and victory for Again would secure the young trainer a fourth Group One prize in total after Damson's 2004 Phoenix Stakes triumph and Luas Line's victory in the following year's Garden City Breeders' Cup Handicap at Belmont.
The suspension that puts a temporary stop to Murtagh's Group One gallop this year works out well for Heffernan who has already stepped in to land this season's Irish Derby and 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh.
Certainly the all-powerful Coolmore syndicate will be putting all their faith in Wachman tomorrow since Aidan O'Brien has just two declarations and one of them, Mystical Lady, is also engaged in the Listed race at Dundalk today.
The thorn in the argument for Again, however, is Shimah, an unbeaten filly by Storm Cat, who is hugely rated by the veteran trainer Kevin Prendergast.
He has a Moyglare pedigree tracing back 28 years to Arctique Royale and Prendergast has always had a massive opinion of Shimah.
She skipped the Phoenix Stakes because ground conditions were too fast but that's not an issue this time and along with Dermot Weld's Galway winner, Rare Ranson, Shimah represents the main threat to Again.
Ballydoyle's only other Curragh declaration is Gluteus Maximus, one of the eight declared for the Round Tower Stakes where Pat Martin gives his highly-rated juvenile Like Magic a tilt at the big time.
However, this doesn't look the strongest Group Three ever run and significantly Eddie Lynam gives Kamado a chance to lose his maiden in a Stakes race. His Anglesey Stakes third to Bushranger and Westphalia looks even better form now.
Tomorrow afternoon's other Group Three is the Flying Five Stakes in which Mark Wallace relies on Chief Editor rather than the course specialist Benbaun.
Just one of the six runners is trained in Ireland but Snaefell will make a bold bid to concede weight all round. Masta Plasta gets 3lb, however, and is back to five furlongs rather than the six over which he finished behind Snaefell at Leopardstown.
Finsceal Beo is the highest rated horse on view and the dual classic winner has no penalty to carry in the Listed Dance Design Stakes. On figures this should be no more than a penalty kick for Jim Bolger's star filly, who is without a win since last year's 1,000 Guineas here but who has mixed it with the best all year.
Her stable companion Ard Fheis, a half-sister to Soldier Of Fortune, has finished out of the money on her last two starts but could be worth persevering with in the €120,000 Cambridgeshire.
