1st - €7,392.00 2nd - €2,400.00 3rd - €1,200.00 4th - €600.00 5th - €300.00 Overcast

FormscanBy Donal Murphy - PIOUS ALEXANDER gets the nod here over Evies Wish. The selection was a good third on debut in June of 2016, before she was disappointingly beaten on her seasonal debut at Cork in April when sent off an odds-on chance. She may have needed that run and she was tried in Listed company on her most recent start. The well-bred daughter of Acclamation had no luck in running on that occasion, and finished ninth of ten. She drops back down to maiden company now, and it'll be disappointing if she doesn't deliver. John McConnell has his horses in excellent form of late, and he is responsible for the aforementioned Evies Wish, who is a full-sister to 2015 Railway Stakes runner-up Rockaway Valley. This daughter of Holy Roman Emperor has some good efforts to her name, and she can be expected to go close here. Sammyjade, who has been placed on four of her eight starts to date, looks the best of the rest in first time cheekpieces.

For three yrs old and upwards, maidens at starting
Weights - 3-y-o 9st 5lb; 4-y-o and up 9st 11lb; Fillies allowed 5lb;