Nyra (Ger)

Shapoor Mistry's G1 Oaks heroine Thundering On (Frankel) will face nine rivals in Saturday's G1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh after declarations for the Paddy Power-sponsored 10-furlong contest were confirmed Thursday morning. The Joseph O'Brien trainee will depart from stall seven, which also housed last year's victrix Whirl (Wootton Bassett) and Mistry's O'Brien-trained 2021 winner Thundering Nights (Night Of Thunder). She will be partnered by Dylan Browne McMonagle and accompanied by Carriganog stablemates Wemightakedlongway (Australia), runner-up in last year's G1 Irish Oaks, and Nyra (Isfahan), who ran third in...

It has been a while since Jim Bolger had a real top-flight prospect and so it was welcome sight that greeted Cork's faithful on Sunday when his unbeaten filly Sparan Nua (Dawn Approach) took the G3 Darley Munster Oaks. After Newtown Anner Stud's recent acquisition had mastered her elders in the mile-and-a-half contest, her breeder and trainer was looking at next month's Curragh Classic. "She is still learning on the job and was green enough there today," Bolger said of the 11-4 favourite, who was stepping up after winning over...