Bookies Happy To Listen

Aidan O'Brien's Listen has been installed as the 11-10 favourite with Cashmans for the prestigious Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

Won four times in the last seven years by O'Brien, he traditionally only sends his smartest fillies to contest the Group One race.

But a victory for Listen would be even more poignant than usual for the Coolmore team as her full-sister Sequoyah won the race in 2000.

The Sadler's Wells filly made a winning debut in a Listed race at the Curragh in June but was then surprisingly turned over by Dermot Weld's Campfire Glow in the Debutante Stakes on her last start.

However, that has not deterred punters who have continued to steam into the juvenile since the market opened earlier in the week.

Joe Burke, spokesman for Cashmans, said: 'The only filly punters wanted to know about all week has been Listen and we've had to cut her from 5-4 to 11-10 as she bids to emulate Sequoyah.

'All the other contenders have drifted since our first show.'

However, taking on Listen is Clive Brittain's highly-regarded Albabilia, an easy winner of the Group Three Sweet Solera Stakes at Newmarket on her last outing and supplemented to the tune of 30,000 euro this week.

On that occasion she was ridden by Ryan Moore, but she won her maiden in the hands of Australian Kerrin McEvoy.

And that Ascot event has turned into quite a hot affair as the subsequent Lowther winner Nahoodh was back in third.

'I'm really looking forward to getting back on her after I won on her at Ascot,' said McEvoy.

'Clive really likes her and she has come on leaps and bounds since winning her maiden. Then she went on to win a Group Three and I rode her in work on Tuesday morning and she is in very good shape. She's a classy two-year-old filly.

'When Ryan rode her last time he said the ground was a little bit too firm for her so a bit of cut should suit her down to the ground.

'We are still learning about her as she has only had three runs and she is a big, strong filly and the Curragh should suit,' he told Teletext.

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