Aidan O'Brien will run four horses in Saturday's Entenmann's Irish 2,000 Guineas and one of them, Freud (Jamie Spencer), is the colt in demand with the punters.
The full brother to last year's Guineas runner-up, Giant's Causeway, was backed from 14 to 1 to half those odds with Cashmans yesterday.
Michael Kinane will ride Minardi while John Murtagh will be on Black Minnaloushe with Seamus Heffernan on Mozart.
The Ballydoyle colt King's County (George Duffield) will take his chance in Sunday's Derby Italiano at Capannelle and will be joined by Dermot Weld's Vinnie Roe (Richard Quinn).
Weld's plan to run Pine Dance in Monday's Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park looks to have been hijacked by the weather with persistent rain threatening racing itself at the New York track. Instead, he will run in a $100,000 allowance race at Delaware Park on Saturday night.
The most significant information for the first three races at Tipperary this evening should come in the ring with three unraced horses seemingly in line to win. The O'Brien duo of the Danzig colt, Line Rider, and the son of Woodman, Hawk Wing, can go in and John Oxx introduces the Shernazar filly Mayara in the three-year-old maiden.
