Irish Derby Festival: Landofhopeandglory up for the Coral.ie Curragh Cup

Alveena open to further improvement

Alveena has a progressive profile and looks a big player for in-form trainer Dermot Weld.

The filly has won two of her three starts this season, and there was lots to like about the way she went about her business when landing a 12-runner handicap over 1m 4f at Cork earlier in the month by two lengths.

Alveena travelled well through before staying on strongly to be well on top at the finish, leaving the impression that there may be further improvement to come when stepped up in trip.

This does represents a big step up in class, but Alveena is on an upward curve and Weld is a trainer that doesn’t go tilting at windmills.

Cymro cannot be dismissed

The field is completed the Tom Dascombe trained Cymro who steps up significantly in trip having disappointed when well beaten in the Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes during Royal Ascot when last seen in action.

Prior to that, the colt had run well to finish a 2 1/2 lengths fourth to Dartmouth in the Group 3 Ormonde Stakes at Chester, and the winner has since gone on to land the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes.

That is solid form in the contest of this contest, and affords the four-year-old plenty of respect.

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Coral’s top tip: Landofhopeandglory is unexposed as a stayer and rates a solid bet to give trainer Aidan O’Brien with a fourth successive success in the Coral.ie Curragh Cup.