RIDGE HAS EDGE

UNLUCKY on her handicap debut in the Bold Lad last time, Carla Ridge should have every chance of making her stakes-race breakthrough in the listed Darley Irish EBF Brigid's Pastures Stakes at the Curragh toda’

- BY PETER O'HEHIR

This New Bay filly trained by Eddie and Patrick Harty, has acquitted herself well in hot company all season. Realistically, we can put a line through her Bold Lad run, under 9-10, as she was badly hampered before trailing in 19th behind Tango Flare.

Her earlier form included a highly creditable fourth to Swelter in a Guineas trial at Leopardstown in the spring, when she finished just a half-length behind subsequent Coronation Stakes heroine Cercene and a third to Babouche in the Group 3 Lacken Stakes at Naas in May.