Three tips at Dundalk on Friday Dundalk hosts an eight-race card that features five handicaps on Friday. The action kicks off at 16:55 and runs through to the finale at 20:30 and we have provided selections and analysis for three of the races on Friday's card. Selections 17:30 Dundalk - Still She Blooms 18:30 Dundalk - Wrecking Ball Paul 19:30 Dundalk - San Andreas 17:30 Dundalk - Still She Blooms There are a lot of overlapping form lines in this 7f handicap, and trying to pick which one may come out on top this time is a tough task. Amemri is in good form, while Knockmore Prince again looked unlucky last time, but that's often the case. This could go to a relatively unexposed mare in the 5yo Still She Blooms, who wears a hood for the first time on her stable debut and has the services of Colin Keane. This is only her seventh start and her fourth run in handicaps, and she has travelled well and stuck at it in the manner needed to win around here on each of her recent course starts. She was only beaten two lengths by Amemri last time, and that one's 4lb rise puts her right in the picture, while Keane's record of four wins from 14 rides for the stable is certainly noteworthy. 18:30 Dundalk - Wrecking Ball Paul Although the manner of Wrecking Ball Paul's success in this race last year was utterly farcical, it remains true that the only run over 2m on the flat produced the second-best RPR of this seven-year-old's career, and after plenty of poor runs over shorter trips in the last year, he returns off a mark 10lb lower than for that rout. The opposition jockeys are not likely to allow him much rope this time, but it's impossible to know how well he would have run in a 'normal' race and from his reduced mark, it looks worth backing him to repeat the feat. There are the usual mixture of Dundalk stalwarts and jumpers switching codes in this marathon contest, but nothing stands out as being especially progressive or well-handicapped, and with cheekpieces going on for the first time, the selection could well take a bit of catching once more. 19:30 Dundalk - San Andreas Joseph O'Brien's nine-year-old is a standing dish in this type of race at Dundalk, and won this particular race in 2022 and 2023 and everything looks set fair for him to take it again. First or second in 16 of his 30 starts at the track, he showed how much he loves this place again this winter with two handicap successes in December under Friday's pilot Shay Wallace, who rides him for the first time since. His wins in this race have been two of the best performances of his career, both times under claiming jockeys, and despite facing higher-rated opposition today, none of them have their ideal conditions which cannot be said for the selection who can strike again. Get €50 in FREE bets with the Betfred sign up offer:
