Luminous Eyes shows real potential

Racing : Luminous Eyes looks to be going places judged on the manner of her success in the Group Three Silver Flash Stakes at…

Racing: Luminous Eyes looks to be going places judged on the manner of her success in the Group Three Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown this evening.

The David Wachman-trained Chintz was backed into 8-11 favouritism but had no answer to the front-running winner as Dermot Weld's charge stayed on strongly for Pat Smullen to score by two and a half lengths.

Successful at Roscommon last time out, the daughter of Bachelor Duke got every yard of this seven furlongs and seems sure to get a mile in time.

Weld said after the 9-2 triumph: "She's a sound horse, she's relaxed and very genuine. She was effective on soft at Roscommon so I was concerned about the drying ground here, but she quickened well from the front.

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"She's got the hang of things now and is potentially very good. The Debutante Stakes will be next and if she progresses then she will go for the Moyglare."

Incline (9-10 favourite) will head for back-to-back Galway Festival wins after obliging in the Kilmacud Claiming Race under Johnny Murtagh.

The Ray McGlinchey-trained nine-year-old landed the Tote Galway Mile 12 months ago and that is again the big target.

McGlinchey said: "The horse has been hard to place so we decided to take this opportunity when it arose. This will be his last serious piece of work before Galway."