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An important day in the racing calendar. All eyes will be on Newmarket and later Churchill Downs. Fingers crossed Aidan wins both. Despite his dominance I love to see him raising the bar even further and to win the Kentucky Derby would be off the scale . We’re concentrating on Cork where it’s described as soft to heavy. It’ll be gluey with the drying and whether our 2 will handle it is in question. They might. Bianca Minola runs at 3.40 and it’s her first run for us. She came to Ireland on the basis that she handled soft ground and there would be plenty of opportunities for her. She put up a splint, an area of bony inflammation on her shin bone, about 6 weeks ago and while she didn’t miss a beat I didn’t want to run her while it was irritating her. She has been working fine and hopefully she’ll give her very enthusiastic owner a bit of fun in the coming months. I think she’ll handle nice ground aswell for what that’s worth.   Alcatraz is next. He’s well drawn, the trip will suit, he’ll be ably assisted by Gary and he appears in terrific form. All his ducks are in a row today but this is Alcatraz and Alcatraz does what Alcatraz wants. Watch this space.