Confirmed runners and riders for Sunday's Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh

Buzz horse Santa Barbara, who started favourite for the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks, will face seven rivals in the Alwasmiyah Pretty Polly Stakes (3.40), the Group 1 that headlines the action at the Curragh on Sunday.

Trained by Aidan O'Brien for the Coolmore partners and Georg von Opel, Santa Barbara was a Curragh maiden winner last year who spent much of the winter on the tips of tongues for Classic glory.

Watch a replay of the 1,000 Guineas

However, she could not justify her price of 5-2 in the 1,000 Guineas, finishing fourth behind stablemate Mother Earth and she was fifth to fellow Ballydoyle inmate Snowfall in the Oaks.

O'Brien has won the Pretty Polly, which is worth €250,000, four times since 2011 and did not declare his other entries Divinely and Empress Josephine.

Sunday Curragh racecards

Santa Barbara's biggest threat could come from Thundering Nights, who is trained by O'Brien's son Joseph and finished second in a Grade 2 in America recently.

Confirmed runners and riders for the Pretty Polly Stakes

Cayenne Pepper Shane Foley
EponaPlays Billy Lee
Insinuendo Declan McDonogh
SilencePlease Tom Madden
ThunderingNights Shane Crosse
Oodnadatta Colin Keane
Santa Barbara Ryan Moore
Shale Gavin Ryan

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