The Audi Pretty Polly Stakes is the feature event at the Curragh on Saturday, and this Group 2 race looks set to be dominated by British-trained fillies with Hanami getting a confident vote.
James Toller´s charge ran with credit in both the Sagitta 1,000 Guineas and the Vodafone Oaks, and this intermediate ten furlongs distance should prove ideal.
Michael Stoute provides the chief threat with York scorer Zee Zee Top, while Sandown maiden winner Stage Shy represents John Gosden.
In contrast the Group 3 IAWS Curragh Cup is an all domestic affair, and the lightly-raced Arundel is taken to confirm earlier maiden form at this venue with Maharib.
Clock Tower has been unlucky to come up against useful colts from Ballydoyle on both starts to-date, and can go one better in the juvenile maiden.
The three handicaps on the card will provide jackpot punters with plenty to think about, although Perfect Touch is fancied in the seven furlongs fillies event following her second at Newmarket.
Alan Magee
