Before we move onto the weekend there were two meetings on Friday, At Limerick I picked two winner's, a third,three Fourth's,a Fifth and a non runner while at Kilbeggan we had two winner's, two seconds, a third,a fourth,one non finisher and one non runner.
The next two days are the biggest in the Irish racing calendar with Irish champions weekend at Leopardstown on Saturday and The Curragh on Sunday. Saturday sees two group ones,at 3.10 Fancy Blue and Peaceful battle it out in the Justify Matron stakes a rerun of the Irish 1000 Guineas which Peaceful won by 2 lengths. Then at 4.10 comes the best race of the weekend when Ghaiyyath,Japan and Magical go to post in the Irish Champion stakes. Ghaiyyath is on fire this season having already won the international stakes at York, the Coronation Cup at Royal Ascot and the Coral- Eclipse while in the same international stakes Magical was a three length second. Japan lost out to Enable in the King George in his last outing so this is a difficult race to call.
On Sunday The Curragh hosts four group one's,At 3.10 Equilateral,Make A Challenge and Que Amoro go head to head in the Flying Five stakes with all of them having hopes in what should be a fast race. Make A Challenge will be looking for his third win in a row while Que Amoro makes his first appearance since being beaten by Battaash in the Nunthorpe Stakes at York. Equilateral meanwhile will look to improve on his last performance a fifth in the City Walls Stakes also at York a race where Que Amoro was 3rd. The Moyglare Stud Stakes at 3.40 is a family affair with the O'Brien's training all the front runners. Dad Aidan has won 5 of the last 10 runnings of this race and has Mother Earth as his best chance for number 6 but his sons will have something to say about that, Donnacha has Shale who was beaten by his brothers runner Pretty Gorgeous last time out and looks like he could be again here. Master of The Seas looks to make it three out of three this season after two impressive wins at Newmarket when he runs in the Vincent O'Brien National stakes at 4.10 with Lucky Vega and Battleground his closest challengers and at 4.40 last years Irish derby winner Sovereign attempts to bounce back after being beaten by Enable in his last outing by landing the Irish St Leger although Ebor winner Fujarira Prince won't make it easy.
So with so many good horses and exciting races to come you can see why I won't be making any tips just sit back and enjoy the racing.
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