Wallace Targets Flying Hat-Trick Mark Wallace will send Benbaun to the Curragh on Sunday for a third consecutive victory in the Nolan & Brophy Auctioneers Flying Five Stakes ? and also to prepare for a trip to Japan next month.Benbaun's last four wins have been at the Curragh, including the six-furlong Greenlands Stakes earlier in the campaign.He also warmed up for his close fifth in the richly-endowed Sprinters Stakes at Nakayama last year with a narrow victory over Desert Lord in the Group Three event.Wallace believes the current outbreak of equine flu in Japan will not affect his participation in the same race again on September 30, but his more pressing issue is that the ground on Sunday is not too soft.'He definitely runs at the Curragh, as long as the ground is OK,' said Newmarket-based Wallace.'Hopefully it will not be too bad out there ? it's supposed to be drying all the time. Preferably it will be fast, but good ground would be all right.'After that, he'll go to Japan and they say it should be OK to travel.'He will be travelling there in the middle of the month, and he can do the last week of quarantine when he gets out there.'Benbaun, last seen finishing 12th in the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot, could lead a five-strong British contingent which includes Hoh Mike, Enticing, Moss Vale and Tax Free.Nunthorpe third Dandy Man is one of the 12 Irish possibles confirmed at this stage.(C) PA Sport
