RACING / Curragh Sunday preview: Both One Cool Cat and Pearl Of Love carry considerable stable confidence into tomorrow's Dunnes Stores National Stakes but One Cool Cat can keep Ireland's premier juvenile prize at home.

Already a 5 to 1 favourite for next year's 2,000 Guineas, and already a Group One winner, the credentials of the $3.1 million colt look impressive even if the bare form of his Phoenix Stakes victory doesn't.

On the face of it, beating a sick Three Valleys and a stable companion who barely made fourth in the Prix Morny afterwards is not confidence inspiring. But the way the Ballydoyle colt does his job most certainly is.

Yesterday, his trainer Aidan O'Brien said: "He has been in good form since the last day and we've always thought the seven furlongs would suit him."

Darryll Holland, making his first trip to Ireland since the Falbrav fiasco in the Champion Stakes, has already described Pearl Of Love as being among the best two-year-old's he has ever sat on.

His defeat of Tumblebrutus, who runs in the Belmont Futurity in New York tomorrow night, in the Curragh's Futurity does, however, give O'Brien a clear link to his star two-year-old and One Cool Cat does look impossible to oppose.

It could be a very successful day indeed for the O'Brien-Kinane team. Colossus was second last in the Morny but on better ground should be the one to beat in the Blenheim Stakes while Anchor should break his duck in the first.

An intriguing runner, however, in the Listed Solonaway Stakes is last year's double Group One winner Spartacus. This season has produced only two disappointing efforts but he remains a top level winner who is unpenalised at this Stakes level. Spartacus could well bounce back to winning form.

Quick ground may catch out the Lancashire Oaks winner Place Rouge in the Blandford so her compatriot Chorist may be the safer option.