Harrington feels Guineas duo have big chance Jessica Harrington believes she has two strong contenders for the Tattersalls Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh on Sunday in Jack Naylor and Bocca Baciata. Jack Naylor won three times last season, including victories over Agnes Stewart and subsequent Newmarket 1000 Guineas heroine Legatissimo, and ended her campaign with a third to Found in the Prix Marcel Boussac. Bocca Baciata reappeared with an easy win over Jim Bolger's filly Pleascach, who was subsequently a Group Three winner and reopposes here. "Bocca Baciata won the Salsabil Stakes so she has just been ticking over since then, just getting her there," Harrington told At The Races. "Jack Naylor was meant to run in the Blue Wind Stakes about 10 days ago, but the ground was heavy so we didn't run her, which means she's going there without a run. I think Bocca is one of those which seems to go on any ground. "I've never actually worked them together, they came at different times last year, Jack Naylor was out much earlier. She had a good two-year-old career, being third in a Group One. "All Jack's form is good, she beat Legatissimo giving her 5lb and has also beaten Agnes Stewart, but she hasn't had a run this year. She's not over-big so I don't think that will worry her. "We'll get over this weekend and then plan for the rest of the season. The way Jack is bred, she's a real mile-and-a-half filly, she amazed me last year that she was able to win over six." In a trial earlier in the season won by Dermot Weld's Stormfly, who also runs in this, Michael O'Callaghan's Military Angel finished third, just behind Devonshire, on what was only her second outing. "She's still relatively unexposed having only run twice. She was third in the first of the 1,000 Guineas Trials at Leopardstown and won first time out on nice ground," said O'Callaghan. " She'll really appreciate better ground and I'm looking forward to running her. "I thought her run in the trial was very good. It was only her second ever start and she'd never encountered that sort of ground. The first few pulled a long way clear and she had Legatissimo in behind her that day, so the form is exceptional. "I hope she can run the race of her life and maybe be placed. I'm very happy with her and looking forward to it." Weld also runs the once-raced Joailliere, Bolger has Steip Amach along with Pleascach, while Mick Channon sends over Newmarket fourth Malabar.
