Rely on Cocksure

The Peter Chapple-Hyam-trained Ascot winner Saintly Speech and Jim Bolger's Desert Sky are now described as doubtful for Sunday's Moyglare Stud Stakes, all of which has a very limited impact on this afternoon's Dundalk card where the emphasis is very much on quantity.

Saintly Speech, who won the Princess Margaret Stakes, is now likely to wait for the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket while another English-trained filly that will miss the race is Jeff Pearce's Indeedydo.

Mark Prescott will send Littlefeather for the race. The Newmarket handler said yesterday: "Littlefeather will be my first runner in the Moyglare. She has won her last three starts, is in good form and George Duffield rides."

Michael Kinane will be on one of the three fillies (Alluring, Amethyst and Buffalo Berry) that Aidan O'Brien is set to leave in at today's forfeit stage and while the £3,500 Knockbridge Handicap may not be as high in his list of priorities, the 10 times champion jockey does look a significant booking for the Tony Martintrained Cocksure today.

Kinane was on board the four-year-old when he won a 0-65 handicap at Down Royal in July and although Cocksure hasn't hit the mark over hurdles since, he should be up to this company.

Cocksure does, however, have to take a three furlong drop in trip from that Down Royal success but he did show a lot of pace on that occasion and the likes of An Lu Abu and Margin Call look vulnerable to that.

The nap, however, is given to Nyliram in the claiming race. The blinkered daughter of Petorious ran a reasonable race at Tralee last week when sixth to the decent Promising Lady and the odds on Gifts Galore and should be able to step up enough on that to give a race to Miss Bidder whose greatest hour came when beating Brahms on her debut.

Onefor Nine ran a good second to The Oozler at Kilbeggan and will be a tough nut to crack in the opening maiden hurdle. The veteran Master Hunter, a bumper winner on the track, looks the likely main danger.