The Maktoum brothers have four runners in three races at Fairyhouse this evening and could emerge with a 100 per cent scoreline with Dermot Weld having a double for Hamdam Al Maktoum with Alami and Shi-Ar and John Oxx winning with Sheikh Mohammed's Torn Silk.

The most intriguing of the trio is Shi-Ar who has managed to run in two of the best maidens of the year at the Curragh. He was fourth behind Sirinndi last time and this race has worked out very well while on his debut he really flew to the heavens.

Backed down to favouritism he could only manage fifth place but the winner was Ebadiyla who took the Kildangan Stud Irish Oaks while the runner up that day, Dr Johnston, occupied the same placing to Desert King in the Budweiser Irish Derby.

Shi-Ar's owner is the sponsor of the Derristown apprentice Series, and this is one leg in which the prize money should stay at home as there are no signs of any Group horses hiding away in this opposition.

As a two-year-old Alami was rated of Group calibre and while he never scored at that level he was a decent three-year-old who finished fourth in the Ladbroke European Free Handicap and then went to Dubai before coming to the Curragh this term. He has yet to be in the first three but he has shown enough spark to suggest that he may be able to give 6lb to Sheikh Mohammed's Private Chapel in the Rathbeggan Handicap.

Oxx won the Greenpark Amateur Maiden the last two years and should continue the winning sequence with Torn Silk who kept Musical Mayhem under pressure at Galway.