Ebadiyla heads for Leopardstown

Ebadiyla, winner of last year's Kildangan Stud Irish Oaks, will run at Leopardstown on Sunday in a prep race for the Smurfit …

Ebadiyla, winner of last year's Kildangan Stud Irish Oaks, will run at Leopardstown on Sunday in a prep race for the Smurfit Memorial Irish St Leger at the Curragh next month.

Trainer John Oxx said yesterday: "Ebadiyla will go for the Listed Ballycullen Stakes and the plan after that is to contest the Leger. She is also in the Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp but I will not be making any decision on that race until after the Irish St Leger."

Sunday will see Ebadiyla's third appearance of the current season. She finished fifth at the Curragh first time out in May then ran a close third behind Silver Patriarch and Swain in the Coronation Cup at Epsom the following month.

Coastal Bluff, who dead-heated with Ya Malak in last season's Nunthorpe Stakes, will not run again this season and his next appearance in public will be in the sales ring.