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The Irish Stallion Farms EBF ´Red God´ Handicap takes centre stage on an eight-race card at Dundalk today.
The 10-furlong feature race has attracted 14 runners and while bottom weight Presidio is still a maiden, the other 13 runners have won 63 races between them.
Chief amongst those are nine-times winners Poitin Political Policy and Specific Gravity while Ringside Humour bids to join that gang with eight wins to date. De Coronado a maiden winner for Aidan O'Brien, is an eye-catching type as a full brother to Zenyatta whose 19 wins from 20 career starts, included two Breeders' Cups verdicts which were among 13 Group One successes for that outstanding racemare.
The lucrative card at Dundalk houses 151,000 euro in total prize money and while the 10,500 euro Bar One Racing Special Apprentice Handicap is the least valuable contest, it provides David Marnane's Tennessee Waltz another opportunity to claim a third course win, having also prevailed at Cork on August 8.
The gelding competes from a rating of 61, 5lb higher than when winning at Cork, but is again ridden by useful claimer Killian Leonard and has a nice draw in five.
The concluding Floodlit Friday Racing 22nd Sept Handicap sees the Johnny Levins-trained Eleuthera bid to complete a hat-trick of wins from his top weight, while O'Brien's Hence a sister to Alice Springs, is likely to prove a warm order to win the Irish Stallion Farms EBF (Fillies) Maiden, having shaped well when fifth at Cork on debut on August 8.
