Cork on agenda for St Patrick's Day St Patrick’s Day could try to make it third time lucky since joining the Aidan O’Brien stable in the Goffs Platinum Stakes at Cork on Saturday. The former American-trained colt, who has run respectively in two starts at the Curragh without success, is among 15 entries for the Listed contest over a mile. O’Brien has also put in Kenya, who was well beaten in the Prix du Jockey Club on his latest outing. Others in the list include the Fozzy Stack-trained Alexios Komnenos, Jessica Harrington’s Marshall Jennings and Michael Mulvany’s dual-purpose performer On The Go Again. Dermot Weld’s Eziyra and the Willie McCreery-trained Bloomfield, the first two home in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Give Thanks Stakes 12 months ago, are among 18 possibles for the Group Three on the same card. Weld also has Tocco D’Amore, unbeaten in two starts, with Michael Halford’s Kalaxana and the Jim Bolger-trained Turret Rocks in the mix. O’Brien is responsible for seven — Clear Skies, Broadway, Curly, Easter Lily, Erin, Queen Iseult and Sizzling — while his son Joseph has Baby Pink and Dynabee. William Haggas’ What A Home and Worth Waiting from David Lanigan’s yard represent UK interests, although the latter is not certain to run as she also holds an engagement in Prix Minerve at Deauville on Sunday. Lanigan feels the three-year-old filly deserves a chance at this level, after she took her winning run to three in the Listed Aphrodite Stakes at Newmarket last month. “I left her in both races. I think we are leaning towards going to France,” said Lanigan. “She seems to have come out of her race at Newmarket fine. We always felt she was a black-type filly, but she is stepping up to Group Three level. “We keep stepping her up gradually and see how we get on.”
