York's Ebor Festival: Key Irish Runners and Insights for Thursday The world-famous Ebor Festival continues at York on Thursday afternoon with the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks the main attraction. We're taking a look at the Irish-based contenders set to line up at York on day two of the Ebor Festival. BOYLE Sports Betting Offer If you already have a BOYLE Sports account, check out more of the best betting sites and online casinos Garden Of Eden & Minnie Hauk - Pertemps Network Yorkshire Oaks (15:35) Just four runners for the Yorkshire Oaks compared to twice as many last year, and two of them are trained by Aidan O'Brien. After her wins at Epsom and the Curragh in the English and Irish Oaks, Minnie Hauk may have served to scare some of the opposition. The Frankel filly also won the Cheshire Oaks at Chester in May and now looks set to emulate Enable (2017) by adding this fourth major Oaks prize to her collection. Stablemate Garden Of Eden won the Ribblesdale at Royal Ascot in June to add to her Listed success at Naas the month before and comes here off the back of a recent win in the German Oaks at Dusseldorf. O'Brien has won the Yorkshire Oaks four times in the last five years and will have strong claims of continuing his domination in this fillies' Group 1. Alice Monet & Butterfly Wings - British EBF & Sir Henry Cecil Galtres Stakes (16:10) O'Brien relies on Butterfly Wings for the following Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes — a race the Ballydoyle supremo has won just once, with Table Rock in 2014. This Justify filly has only a Leopardstown maiden to her name after eight starts, that success coming in May. She was a 66/1 chance and beaten close to nine-lengths in the seven-runner Irish Oaks behind Minnie Hauk last month but does get a significant drop in class here. Dermot Weld, meanwhile, saddles Alice Monet in the famous Moyglare silks. The Teofilo filly is 2-4 so far and progressed to win a Leopardstown handicap over 1m1f last month off an opening mark of 87, giving weight and a beating to some solid rivals. She rises in class here for the Master of Roswell House. Bonus Time - British EBF Fillies' Handicap (17:20) Trainer Paddy Twomey has a very decent team headed for York this week and they will include Too Darn Hot filly Bonus Time in the British EBF Fillies' Handicap over seven-furlongs. The three-year-old was last spotted scoring in a conditions event at Naas over six-furlongs earlier this month, making every yard to hold off 89-rated Kodilicious from the Jessica Harrington yard. That was only her fourth start and second for this handler after switching from Gavin Cromwell. She boasts form figures of 2121 in her four outings since May and remains unexposed tacking this trip for the second time off a mark of 93.
