2.35 Southwell, Novice, 3yo/up, 8f 13y (AWT)
PALLADAS (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) earned TDN Rising Star status on debut at Kempton in January when dealing with the smart Al Azd in style and reappears after a lengthy absence looking to make up for lost time. Charlie Appleby saddles the half-brother to the La Jolla Handicap winner Maltese Falcon (Caravaggio) in a race that contains Juddmonte's Assiri Heights (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), an Andrew Balding-trained relative of the top sprinter Profitable.
3.20 Curragh, Mdn, 2yo, 9fT
PALAZZO SERRISTORI (Justify) is one of an astonishing eight in this field of 11 trained by either O'Brien Sr or the two Jrs, with this being one of Ballydoyle's two eyecatching newcomers. A half to the dual Grade II winner and Grade I-placed Masteroffoxhounds (War Front) and a full-brother to the Jessamine Stakes runner-up Totally Justified, he is joined by Albany County (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), a half-brother to the stable's 1,000 Guineas and Prix Rothschild heroine Mother Earth (Zoffany) who cost €420,000 at the Goffs November Foal Sale, and the Galway third Thomas Chippendale (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) who hails from the Urban Sea dynasty of Galileo and Sea The Stars.
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