PUNTERS won't have long to wait for what look like two of the better potential bets of the day at Listowel tomorrow.
Jim Bolger and Kevin Manning have started the Flat season in good fashion and in Canadian Vista and Blues Project they look to have the material to continue their run.
Canadian Vista will surely find the company of the Feale Maiden much more to her liking compared to the Curragh two weeks ago when she had to contend with the potentially very smart Ebadiyla.
Not surprisingly Canadian Vista didn't win but she ran noticeably well from the front until headed two furlongs out. The extra two furlongs should suit her and she is selected ahead of Ebadiyla's stablemate Lymax.
Bolger should know where he stands with Lymax, however, as he produced Saibhreas to beat that one at Clonmel last month.
That was also the day when Blues Project got his season off to an impressive start, running clear of Afarka to win a 12 furlong handicap by an easy four lengths. Today's Jackie and Gene Handicap doesn't look a significantly better race and if Manning employs the same forcing tactics he used at Clonmel then Blues Project will be hard to catch.
Bawnrock has never quite lived up to the promise he showed as a young horse but will rarely have a better opportunity to break his duck over hurdles than he will in the Shannon Car Ferry Maiden. There's little between him and The Grey Mare on Leopardstown running behind Chatterbuck in March but the extra distance should be in Charlie Swan's mount's favour.
Barry Geraghty gets on well with the Noel Meade trained Stagalier and this remarkably astute youngster can score another success on the mare in the Triton Showers Handicap Hurdle.
Luna Spectrum has always been highly rated by Aidan O'Brien and while the colt may have won on his reappearance after injury at Tipperary, beating the chaser Arctic Weather was hardly an earth shattering performance.
Dropped back to a mile in the John J Galvin Race he looks worth opposing with the Lincoln seventh Line Dancer, the highest rated in the race,
