2.45 6f. 100yds. 3 Declared. Mallow Race of €13,500.00 2-y-o
1st - €8,100.00 2nd - €2,700.00 3rd - €1,350.00 4th - €675.00 5th - €405.00
FormscanBy Michael Graham - ARCTICIAN is favoured over Monaasib in what appears a match between two horses that both hold Group One entries in the National Stakes. Arctician is rated 6lbs higher and they race off level weights, so that gives him an advantage. Although Arctician hasn't got his head in front yet, it is hard to knock his last two pieces of form. He was beaten a neck in the Group 3 Marble Hill, and finished third in the Group 2 Railway Stakes. The runner-up from that latter contest has since taken the Group One Phoenix Stakes in good style. Monaasib ran a cracker in second behind a good winner of a Curragh maiden, and then duly got off the mark by a comfortable two and a half lengths at the same track. He is a very worthy adversary. Larado was 12th (beaten less than seven lengths) on debut behind Lucky Vega in a maiden at Naas in June, but the form of that race is working out very well. It's a tough ask for him against the aforementioned pair, on just his second start, but he could make them work in first-time blinkers.
For two years old only that have not won a Listed or Group raceWeights - 9st 2lbs Fillies allowed 5lbsPenalties - (Auction, Median and Nursery races excluded) Winner of a race 4lb extra Of two races 7lb extra