IT is on the cards that racegoers over the past seven days have seen the winner of the Go Racing In Kildare Irish Lincolnshire in action but opinions will sharply divide between those who side with last year's winner Bolino Star, an eyecatching fourth to Wray at Tipperary last Sunday and Silvian Bliss, who had an unhustled and temperament sweetening win over hurdles at Fairyhouse on Wednesday.
If the ground does dry out a little further overnight, this would enhance the prospects of Silvian Bliss in this particular match. Michael Kinane riding Luso escaped the pile up in Thursday's Dubai Gold Cup, won by Singspiel, a horse incidentally that Michael has ridden more often than any other jockey and is back hungry for a renewed attack upon the jockey's championship.
His Hong Kong schedule has rather blunted his challenge in recent years but that is all behind him now and Silvian Bliss can become his second winner in this big Curragh handicap IS years after he rode Uncle Dick to victory for Liam Browne.
The word from the Curragh though is that Kinane will not ride the first two-year-old winner of the season when partnering the likely to improve Melette. If the chat is duplicated on the race course, this EBF maiden is ear-marked for Christy Roche's mount Flame Violet, carrying the Kentucky Derby winning colours of Michael Tabor.
Jim Bolger showed at Tipperary and Clonmel that he has his team as forward as ever as the best of his runners today could be Bold Hunter in the Fox Covert Maiden. Although he did not manage to win last season, he showed plenty of speed in all his runs and at five furlongs he could have the legs of Dermot Weld's newcomer Alarme Belle.
Significantly this is the stable selected over Swift Intuition who was some four lengths behind Bold Hunter over six furlongs here after disputing the lead for a long way.
The best quality runners are to be found in the Loughbrown Race despite the modest purse. As compared to handicap terms, Beautiful Fire has the best of things but he ran poorly in the Group One National Stakes and I was impressed by the Fairyhouse debut of Red Castle. He was not that strongly fancied but still won going away from Orange Blossom
