Irishcorrespondent Impressing Halford Irishcorrespondent is rated the most likely challenger to hot Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas favourite Churchill by the bookmakers, despite the fact he will be having just his third run, and his first at Group One level. The Teofilo colt won a Leopardstown maiden and then another minor event at the Curragh, and trainer Michael Halford is looking forward to pitching his progressive colt into better company. He said: "He won his maiden well and it's always a good sign if our horses are good enough to win first time out. "He showed a lot of class that day and we were very impressed with him. It was a step up on what he'd been showing at home but the better ones tend to be like that. "He was in France for a while last year, he went back to the farm as he was quite big and he came back to us last back-end. We trained him through the winter and let him come in his own time. "We knew he'd come forward for his first run, he hit the line well, he's handled the ground well both times and the ground should be decent." Ger Lyons fields outsider Glastonbury Song at the Curragh on Saturday but thinks he could run better than his odds suggest. The trainer has the Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot as a target for Glastonbury Song, who was fifth to Orderofthegarter at Leopardstown in April before beating Asking on the Polytrack at Dundalk. Lyons told At The Races: "I have him more as a seven-furlong horse rather than a mile, but I think he'll run well and I'm delighted to have a runner in a six-horse Guineas - I think he'll run a big race. He's 33-1. I don't bet, but if I did that would be some value."
