Seamie Heffernan© Photo Healy Racing
Aidan O’Brien has been mopping up the maidens at the end of the season and Flowering Peach looks sure to go well in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden at Galway today.
A Galileo filly out of a Giant’s Causeway mare, she ran well on her racecourse debut at Leopardstown recently.
Third of 20, she was only beaten a length by Lightning Amber and looks sure to improve for the run, like all from Ballydoyle.
Seamie Heffernan rides Flowering Peach with Donnacha O’Brien on Delphinia a sister to Delano Roosevelt who improved from her first run to her second but looks to have plenty to find against her stablemate.
Dermot Weld runs an interesting newcomer, though, in Kiss For A Jewel By the impressive first season sire Kingman, she is out of Sapphire, who Weld trained to several big-race wins.
The two former Brian Ellison inmates Top Notch Tonto and Dream Walker now with Jarlath Fahey, both run in the Kone Handicap.
The pair have plenty of experience of Galway and on their best form look well treated but age may just be catching up with them now.
Jim Bolger, in great form recently, runs Vocal Music a winner last time out.
Weld’s Raynama runs in the Corrib Food Products Maiden and certainly sets the standard.
She was second to I Can Fly at Dundalk last year and given the progress that one made this year that form looks top notch.
Raynama has only run once this season when third at Cork earlier this month.
Weld has booked the promising Ben Coen to ride top weight Dalton Highway in the John Mulholland Bookmakers Handicap and his 7lb claim can be put to good use.
