Silverware has proved a bugbear to the bookmakers already this year and the Pat Hughes-trained runner is selected to repeat the dose at Cork this afternoon in the three-year-old maiden hurdle.
A winner at Roscommon in early June, Silverware was subsequently heavily backed for the Funky Friday Handicap at the Curragh on Derby weekend and left the bookies feeling decidedly less than good.
Backed down to 5 to 2 favourite, Silverware absolutely skated in and although he didn't win on the flat afterwards, he did look a type that had juvenile hurdle winner written all over him.
Silverware's first race over flights came at Tralee when a distance behind Fable with Second Nature getting up close home to pip him for second.
That horse again cannot be discounted while Eagle Legal has decent runner-up form to both Fable and Perugino Diamond. Silverware, though, should improve from that first experience over flights and Kieran Kelly's 5lb claim can only help too.
Indeed, Kelly and Hughes could have already been on the Cork mark with Duinin who goes for a hat trick in the two and a half mile handicap hurdle.
Duinin got a race over this distance at Bellewstown in the stewards room but she needed no such assistance over three miles at Galway when beating Rahinane Melody by four and a half lengths. Off just 9-12 today, she still looks ahead of the handicapper.
The most valuable race on the card is the £12,000 fillies handicap where the surprise Leopardstown winner Lookout Point tops the weights. She faces a tough second assignment of the season though and maybe a better option will be Dawn Project who got up close to home to beat Tango Passion by half a length at Tralee. The nap, however, goes to the David Wachman-trained Gute who gets a nice chunk of weight from King Of Russia and Lake Victoria in the nursery and should relish the drop back to five on the evidence of her Curragh third to the smart Somerset.
At Ballinrobe tomorrow, possibly the most interesting runner is likely to be Three Rivers who makes a quick graduation to handicap company after easily scoring in a Beginners Chase at the Tralee festival.
The only moment of anxiety for Three Rivers on that occasion was a slightly hairy jump at the second last but apart from that it was very much a solo show and with Norman Williamson replacing the injured Ruby Walsh, Three Rivers should prove very hard to beat.
Last season's Imperial Cup winner Regency Rake goes over fences an hour beforehand and is selected to beat the free running Donadino. Arthur Moore saddled a novice chase winner at Tralee and while Donadino will be fighting fit after a Galway third, Regency Rake does have a 114 rating over flights.
