Lush Irish Challenge for the Nassau Jim Bolger's Lush Lashes heads a strong Irish entry for Saturday's Group One Blue Square Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood. The Coronation Stakes winner steps back up to 10 furlongs and could face up to five fillies from Ballydoyle, with Irish Guineas winner Halfway To Heaven, Irish Oaks runner-up Ice Queen, Kitty Matcham, Mystical Lady and Psalm all possibles for Aidan O'Brien. Ante-post favourite Promising Lead will not take her place in the contest after suffering a knee injury in a piece of work on Saturday and will instead be aimed at the Yorkshire Oaks - already the target for the likes of Look Here, Moonstone and Michita. Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager to owner Prince Khalid Abdullah, said: "She just tweaked a knee after she worked so well on Saturday. It doesn't look like it will keep her out for long, or that it is anything serious, but there is a little bit of heat there." "We have decided not to risk her and she will go straight to York for the Yorkshire Oaks now. "We hope Passage Of Time is a useful substitute and she showed last time that she is still capable." James Fanshawe's Spacious and the Dermot Weld-trained Chinese White are other notable absentees from the Nassau, which has attracted 15 confirmations. Godolphin's Folk Opera, the Peter Chapple-Hyam-trained Cape Amber and Stoute's Heaven Sent are other significant entries, while Soft Morning, Majestic Roi, Classic Remark, Muthabara and Sugar Mint complete the field.
