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Naas stages a seven-race card confined to juveniles today and Aidan O'Brien has another handful of bluebloods to bring into action.
The Ballydoyle handler fields three in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden headed by Forever Together who is a full-sister to Group One winner Together Forever and a half-sibling to the top-class Lord Shanakill.
She is the mount of Wayne Lordan, with Seamie Heffernan teaming up with Gloriously and Derby-winning jockey Padraig Beggy on A Long Time Ago, who is a sister to Cliffs Of Moher.
O'Brien also runs three in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden, with his son Donnacha getting the leg-up on Conclusion a Deep Impact colt out of maiden winner Cherokee.
Lordan is on newcomer Kenya while Heffernan teams up with Flag Of Honour who was unplaced on his debut at the track last month. Conquest is the Ballydoyle representative in the naasracecourse.com Nursery Handicap and while she has failed to make an impact in three starts to date, she has a star pedigree as a full-sister to Minding.
The most valuable race at the fixture is the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Maiden, and the John Oxx-trained Night Of Power might be the one to beat having finished in front of Flag Of Honour on his first taste of competitive action. Aurora Eclipse was another to make a debut full of promise, going down by just half a length at Fairyhouse in July, and she returns from a break in the Naas Racecourse Maiden.
Michael O'Callaghan 's filly has most to fear from the Kevin Prendergast-trained Hawaam who has also been given time to recover from his latest exertions, which resulted in a fourth here. He was previously second behind the smart Dali. Yolo Star returns from an even longer absence in the Book Hospitality Online Nursery Handicap but struck at Cork after giving the classy Actress a race at the Curragh. Moltoir has kept good company and drops in grade for the opening Panoramic Restaurant At Naas Claiming Race.
