Aidan and Donnacha O'Brien team up with Petite Mustique© Photo Healy Racing
Dual Guineas heroine Hermosa was successful in the COLM QUINN BMW Irish EBF Fillies Maiden on day two of last year’s Galway Festival — and Aidan O’Brien will be hoping to see Petite Mustique follow suit this evening.
The daughter of Galileo had a little over a length to spare over likely market rival Azila when the pair ran behind subsequent Group Three winner Love at Leopardstown earlier this month, and can confirm the placings having done her best work in the closing stages on that occasion.
Racing opens with the Colm Quinn BMW Novice Hurdle, in which Fine Brunello sets the standard for Joseph O’Brien and JJ Slevin.
The Al Namix four-year-old disappointed in the Fred Winter Juvenile Hurdle at Cheltenham in March, but his Grade Two second to stablemate Fakir D’Oudairies at the same track in January makes him the one to beat. Zero Ten will be a warm order to land the Latin Quarter Beginners’ Chase for Emmet and David Mullins. The former point-to-point winner has won four of his last five starts under Rules, including bumper and hurdle wins at this course, and is an exciting prospect for his young handler. Dancing On A Dream made a good start for Jessica Harrington when third in a Leopardstown handicap, and will take plenty of beating in the Caulfield Industrial Irish EBF Maiden in the hands of Shane Foley, having been runner-up four times in England last season for Mark Johnston.
The margins will be extremely fine in the Caulfield Industrial Handicap over the extended one-mile trip, with the weight range only 6lb between top-weight and those at the bottom.
The one to side with could be the well-drawn Dance Emperor and his trainer Peter Fahey also has claims in the concluding Caulfieldindustrial.com Handicap over seven furlongs with the Limerick winner Sky Moon
