RACING/Weekend preview: Eddie Lynamhad to make a quick adjustment to his declaration for the Derrinstown Stud Premier Nursery at Naas tomorrow. In the expectation that the weights would go up by 4lb he had booked Fran Berry to ride Kooyong. This youngster had got 8-2 in the original handicap whereas the lightest that Berry has done in the past 12 months is 8-6.

The balloting out of the bottom weight Flavian Dynasty upset his calculations, however, with the weights staying as allotted.

This would have meant Berry putting up at least 4lb overweight and in a tightly framed handicap that could have spelt the difference between success and failure.

In search of a good substitute he got in touch with another Fran but this time an English light weight. "Franny" Norton who rides at less than 8 stone has put together a significant record in English handicaps including the Tote Ebor and the Cambridgeshire.

Considering the ill luck that overtook Kooyong at Navan, Lynam can feel that she owes him one and on her earlier winning form at The Curragh she looks favourably treated.

Two horses who although out of the money behind American Gothic finished beside one another in last Sunday's Hackettts Bookmakers Irish Cesarewitch, Rapid Deployment (seventh) and Marigold (eighth) could complete a big handicap double at home and away with Rapid Deployment (M J Kinane) going for the English Cesarewitch and Marigold (F Norton) sure to make a bold bid for the Tote Exacta October Handicap at Naas.

The double action in Ireland this week takes place at Cork and while today's programme is an all flat affair, the jumpers take the stage tomorrow.

Kevin Prendergast has pieced together this season his highest ever score in two-year-olds races and he has not yet run out of ammunition.

His filly Cat Belling has to carry a 6lb penalty in the EBF Median Auction Race today but she should be able to give the weight away as she has acquitted herself creditably in top class races.

Perhaps her best run was at Group One level in the Moyglare Stud Stakes where she was beaten little more than three lengths into sixth place by Mick Channon's raider Mail The Desert.

The standard of the jumpers in action at Cork is high for such as Ballyhampshire Boy (2-45) and Goss (4-45) need only a bit of luck to make a name for themselves this winter.