Giovanni Canaletto is on course to try to earn an Epsom Derby ticket in Sunday’s Group 3 Gallinule Stakes at the Curragh.
Aidan O’Brien’s maiden winner has yet to run this season but remains a general 12-1 shot in ante-post Derby betting and his trainer has indicated the son of Galileo, who missed the Chester Vase due to a slight setback, will line up in the 10-furlong event.
O’Brien has won eight of the last nine Gallinule renewals, including with subsequent Group 1 winners Leading Light and Adelaide in the last two years. The Gallinule was won by the subsequent dual-Derby hero, Assert, in 1982.
Tombelaine looks like running for the Dermot Weld-Pat Smullen team in Saturday's 2,000 Guineas and they get their eye in at Dundalk this evening.
Morselle was a 33-1 stable second-string on her Gowran debut a month ago but shaped well and as if a drop back to seven furlongs should help her in this fillies maiden.
Don Camillo runs off a mark of 94 in the concluding handicap after winning his maiden at Dundalk in March and the son of Ghostzapper can go in again on the artificial surface.
