Bolger saddles Cimeara in the Eyrefield The curtain comes down on Leopardstown's 2017 Flat season on Saturday, with thetote.com Eyrefield Stakes taking centre stage. Jim Bolger has won the Group Three for the past three years and this time relies on Cimeara, who made a successful beginning to her career in testing conditions at Gowran Park earlier in the month. With Kevin Manning at Doncaster to partner Bolger's Racing Post Trophy hope Verbal Dexterity, Rory Cleary gets the leg-up on the Vocalised filly, who has three Aidan O'Brien-trained juveniles to contend with, including Saracen Knight, who broke through at the same fixture as Cimeara. Of those with official ratings, Burgundy Boy has the highest and he was only beaten three lengths into fourth in the Tyros Stakes when last seen. Providing able support to the feature is the Listed thetote.com Knockaire Stakes, for which David O'Meara sends over both So Beloved and Larchmont Lad. They are joined on the trip across the Irish Sea by Karl Burke's Mjjack, with the home team headed by Dermot Weld's Group Three winner Making Light. Tony Martin has been attracted by the good pot up for grabs in the Tote October Handicap and his three-strong team includes last-start Fairyhouse scorer Tudor City, who attempts to help Oisin Orr in his bid for champion apprentice honours. With Pat Smullen suspended, Colin Keane could all but wrap up the jockeys' title and he starts off on Ger Lyons' Scream, who is one of a handful of interesting newcomers in the Tote Irish EBF Fillies Maiden. Keane will be hoping that Lisard Lady recaptures the form of her debut success in TheTote.com Irish EBF Fillies Nursery, and that Hasselnott maintains his solid level of consistency in the Win Big With Tote Handicap. Full Moon made an introduction full of promise when third at Naas, and he will be fancied to get off the mark for O'Brien in the Tote Irish EBF (C & G) Maiden.
