All roas lead to tralee this friday

The highlight of the year takes place in the oakpark stadium this Friday night with the first rounds of the kingdom derby getting underway it has attracted a top class field and it will take a lot off winning some of the country's top trainers have targeted this sweep with the likes of michael o donavan,owen mckenna,shane murphy,pat curtin and graham holland all having multiple runners,the compass man steven wadsworth also gives his first trip to the Kerry stadium and also has a bunch of runners however the home team has a strong hand this year with liam dowlings ballymac bull,mossie o connors kick for touch and pa fitz ballymac under who posted an outrageous trial there last Monday of 17.41 for the 325 trip they will all be well up for the event it will be very hard to pick a winner so it might be best to hold fire until after the first rounds

The first heat of the night is a cracker with blazeaway honcho a recent sweep winner taking on the likes of evons murralli,kick for touch and u.k raider kilkenny longjack definitly a heat to swerve for punting purposes it could be classed as the heat of death because whatever qualifys from this one there will be some very good dogs going home
heat 6 also looks a quality heat with liam dowlings new flying machine ballymac bull taking on a coupe of very experienced rivals the likes of droopys arseneand munster derby winner compass don
The final heat of the night has brought together the bar one sprint winner almightyjack and the pa fitz trained ballymac under along with the 2006 produce stake winner green heat it should be some race to the bend between the first 2 and watch out for green heat steaming home late on
all in all it looks like a quality stake and it has generally been well supported i do have however on gripe and that is the prize money the winners prize has decreased from 2007 by €500 the 2nd place prize money has been reduced by €1300 and the 3rd place money has been reduced by €720 as for unplaced runners in the final I'm not sure but last year there was €1200 for the unplaced runners
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