LEOPARDSTOWN RETURN PLANNED FOR SINNDAR The National Stakes winner Sinndar will reappear in the Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown on Sunday. The Aga Khan's unbeaten colt was confirmed to make his reappearance by trainer John Oxx yesterday who reports Sinndar in good shape and 'should be up to running a good race'. Oxx added: 'He has to carry a 7lb penalty for being a Group One winner but you can't take the money and then complain about the penalty. He'll come on for the run but he has been working well and is ready for a race. 'We had been thinking of bringing him back in the Derrinstown Derby Trial but this race should do him a lot of good.' Sinndar had the highly rated Media Puzzle back in third when making a winning debut at the Curragh last September and a fortnight later beat Murawwi a head in the National Stakes to earn an international classification rating of 105. Scheduled to take him on this weekend are the Aidan O'Brientrained Shakespeare and Dermot Weld's Gowran Park winner, Grand Finale. It was reported yesterday that the Aintree Grand National runner-up Mely Moss may travel to the Punchestown festival but is unlikely to clash again with his Liverpol conqueror, Papillon. The latter's festival option is the Heineken Gold Cup but trainer Charlie Egerton is considering the Champion Hunters Chase for Mely Moss, who hadn't raced in almost a year before his gallant Grand National effort. Another Aintree horse, the fifth home Addington Boy, has pleased trainer Ferdy Murphy so much since that he is considering the Pat Taaffe Castlemartin Stud Chase at the Punchestown festival before Addington Boy takes his summer break. The first of three days at Listowel begins today, a happy event for the course executive who endured having the entire three days scheduled for 1999 scratched due to waterlogging. Compared to that the forecast, going of 'yielding to soft' today will be positively Mediterranean. Whether it will be decent enough to be ideal for Ganaway's hurdling debut in the second division of the maiden is open to dispute, but the six-year-old grey is still an interesting runner in the race. Now with Liam Browne, he won a Curragh maiden and a Fairyhouse handicap for Jim Bolger before returning from a long break to score in a conditions race at Naas last year. Ganaway subsequently didn't figure in a couple of races but he comes here with a flat rating of 92. He clearly has the speed, and just plain adequacy over the hurdles should see him with a winning chance. Oscar Schindler's half brother Babe Ruth is a speculative choice in the first division, but in the featured £16,500 novice handicap hurdle, it's hard to get away from the man of the moment, Ted Walsh. Papillon may have been his most high-profile winner but he can rarely have had an easier one than when Make My Day positively laughed at the oppositon in a 0-123 handicap at Fairyhouse 11 days ago. The handicapper has upped Make My Day a stone for that but there is no knowing how much the horse had in hand.
