The Paddy Mullins-trained mare No Avail bids for four race wins in a row in the Dawn Milk Handicap on the last day of Killarney, but this £12,000 contest may be a bridge too far for her and Berkeley Square is preferred.
No Avail's streak started at Tralee last month when landing a 12furlong handicap, continued with another handicap at the Curragh, and she then put two and a half lengths between herself and Cincuenta over today's trip at Bellewstown.
Clearly improved and clearly game, No Avail will be hard to beat, but if anything does, it should be Berkeley Square.
Aidan O'Brien's Last Tycoon colt is taking a big hike in distance, but in his three races this season he has given the impression of needing a test of stamina.
The last of those looked to be the best when a running-on third to Golden Rule and Balla Sola over the Curragh's 10 furlongs. Seamus Heffernan brought him from well back that day and the first two had gone, but over this trip a patient policy should pay dividends.
The nap, however, goes to a horse trained by O'Brien's sister-in-law Frances Crowley. She sends out Tuska Ridge for the bumper, and if a run over hurdles at Limerick last Saturday hasn't taken too much out of him, Tuska Ridge should be able to follow up his half-length defeat of Which Is Which at Tipperary last month.
Dance So Suite made an impressive winning debut over hurdles at the May meeting here, beating Close To Home by five lengths. It was testing ground on that occasion and this useful flat handicapper should be far more at home on a faster surface.
Dunrally Fort has been in consistent form recently and should go close in the Killarney Court Handicap and Dermot Weld's Vagrant can make it third time lucky in the 11-furlong maiden.
