Friday Tipping: 'Related to a couple of winners over a mile, it is hoped this longer journey can bring about enough improvement to get her head in front again' Dundalk on Friday evening gets underway at 5.15pm with unusually just three of the seven races attracting full fields of 14 following on from the fixture there on Wednesday where just two of the septet managed to reach the declaration maximum. The €50,000 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Cooley Stakes (6.45) has attracted a full field and three reserves with champion jockey Billy Lee teaming up again with last year’s winner Aviatrice (David Marnane) who found one too good under the Limerickman on her last visit to the Polytrack. She is favourably drawn out of stall 3 in a race that includes four overseas challengers, but a chance is taken with Dancing Saxon under Declan McDonogh tackling this trip for the first time in her career. Her trainer Joseph O’Brien, seeking his first win in this 1m contest, also runs Duchess Of Kenli (Joey Sheridan) but her stable companion, a 7f winner here previously, may hold the upperhand stepping up in distance. She has progressed steadily since winning over 7f at Galway in July and chased home Magny Cours in a Group 3 at Cork before hitting the line well over six on her previous start when second again at the Curragh. Related to a couple of winners over a mile, it is hoped this longer journey can bring about enough improvement to get her head in front again. Denis Hogan is doublehanded in the earlier BAR 1 Betting ‘Acca Boost’ Apprentice Handicap (6.15) headed by his Palmezzano (Mel Sheridan) with stable companion Justenzia making more appeal with champion apprentice Paddy Harnett booked. Runner-up in an 18-runner Curragh 10f handicap off a mark of 72 in September, she showed she can handle this surface when runner-up last time albeit in a claimer won by the 81-rated favourite Sonoran (Ger Lyons). She has been given a chance against her 10 rivals off this revised mark of 69. All eyes will be on the returning Chesham Stakes runner-up on his sole start, On Just Terms, who reappears in the 14-runner 1m maiden (7.15). His trainer Joseph O’Brien is also represented with Sioux Nation newcomer Warrior Of Slam who cost €130,000 as a yearling but it’s another colt Drive On There who cost the same money also at Goffs as a yearling that might improve enough to shed his maiden tag. Well supported into favourite on debut in a 7f maiden at Leopardstown dominated by the Ballydoyle 1-2 Accumulation and Imposing, the penny only dropped in the closing stages when he picked up well for Billy Lee from off the pace to finish a never threatening fifth. With that experience behind him he could potentially trouble the Piltown duo. Friday Staking Plan 6.15 Dundalk 1pt win Justenzia 6.45 Dundalk 1pt win Dancing Saxon 7.15 Dundalk 1pt win Drive On There
