After a confidence boosting winner with Song Of The Clyde on Saturday and a good run from our NAP Spyce (who just missed a place in fourth) I have decided to do another write up for tomorrow’s meeting at Naas. Find out who I am backing in my 2026 Naas Sunday preview below.
2.26 – ALTO Equine Handicap (100 = 10st)
Earlier this season I put the quirky Senna’s Girl up for the
Irish Lincolnshire. It’s fair to say she ran a stinker but she clearly needed
that run and it has been much more like it in two runs since then.
On her next start after the Lincoln she ran a cracker at
Leopardstown in a first time tongue tie over 7f (yld-sft). Running off 78 and
drawn in the car park, she stayed on really nicely in the closing stages to
grab fourth, finishing 3.75l behind the winner.
Diego Dias decided to return to maiden company at Limerick
on her next start (1m, yielding) and she again ran a really nice race. Wearing
cheekpieces and a tongue tie this time, she ran on strongly after a slightly
slow start for a 2.75l third.
The handicapper generously dropped her another 1lb for that
run and with Rory Mulligan’s claim, she is effectively 7lb lower than when
running so well at Leopardstown. The way she finishes off her races, the stiff
finish at Naas could suit her and she has run well on good ground before, though
there was a fair bit of rain on Saturday so it shouldn’t be too quick tomorrow.
The headgear she wore last time is retained and while she’s
drawn wide, she’ll be dropped out early anyway so that isn’t really a negative.
At odds of 12/1, Senna’s Girl is the each way NAP of the day.
2026 Naas Sunday Tip: Senna’s Girl e/w @ 12/1 NAP (4
places)
3.56 – Owenstown Stud Stakes (Listed)
I am going to take a punt on one at huge odds here. On the
figures, Carolina Jetstream has no apparent chance here. She is rated 95 so she
has over a stone to find with some of her higher rated rivals but she does get
a few pounds of an allowance from the boys and she is unexposed on good ground.
This daughter of Pinatubo has shown all her best form on the
AW. All four of her career wins have come at Dundalk, the latest a handicap
off 92 in February. She has also dipped her toe in Listed company at that venue
and she was a whisker away from nicking some black type in fourth, finishing 1.25l
behind the winner Aviatrice and a neck behind the runner up Jancis, who won the
Group 2 Dahlia Stakes at Newmarket on her next outing.
Carolina Jetstream is 0-4 on turf and three of her four runs
on grass have been piss poor. However, for those three runs she was running on
soft and heavy ground. The only time in her career she ran on good ground was in
a Curragh maiden as a 2yo back in October 2024 and she ran an excellent race to
finish a 2.25l third behind Giselle, a subsequent Listed winner who finished
fifth in the 2025 Oaks.
It is crazy to think this will be her first run on good ground
since then and I am hoping she might improve plenty for it. At odds of 50/1, it
is worth chancing that she does.
2026 Naas Sunday Tip: Carolina Jetstream e/w @ 50/1
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