Asfoora set for Flying Five Stakes at Curragh Asfoora is set to make history this weekend as she prepares to become the first Australian-trained Flat runner in Ireland. Asfoora Targets Flying Five Stakes Asfoora will become the first Australian runner on the Flat in Ireland when taking her chance in the Group 1 Bar One Racing Flying Five Stakes. Successful in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York last month, she arrives into Ireland on Friday ahead of Sunday’s sprint in which she will again be ridden by Oisin Murphy. Dwyer Confident After York Success Speaking yesterday evening from his home in Ballarat, trainer Henry Dwyer said, “Asfoora came out of winning the Nunthorpe at York very well. I would say she is at or very near her peak now. I can’t be there with her at present, I am back in Australia, but my team have been with her all the way and they feel she has improved since York. This will be her fourth run in Europe this year and we have to be hopeful of another big run.” “Travel arrangements meant she wasn’t quite ready for Royal Ascot and the ground turned on her last minute at Goodwood, which did not help. We felt she was primed just right for York and she was very good there. “We just hope the ground can remain on the good side. She will be okay on good to soft, but we can’t do much about the surface. She is in top shape and will travel over on Friday, we are really looking forward to racing her in Ireland.”
