TODAYS TIPS (FRIDAY)

Liam Hall gives his best bets for Friday night's all-weather action from Dundalk. 17:45 DUNDALK 

This maiden looks set up for the likely favourite Astronomicllally after finishing fourth, if she finds improvement from that debut performance she'd be hard to beat, that said it only came 9 days ago. Indomiknow is stoutly bred being a half sister to a Group 3 winner but the trainers runners often run green on debut. Gimme Energy looks certain to improve for the step up in trip but the value looks to be with Pivotal Terms, bred nicely and made a pleasing debut before finding life much tougher in a sales race, back down to a maiden could hit the frame at the very least. 

PIVOTAL TERMS (E/W) 

19:20 DUNDALK 

Lauda brings in the experience to this contest having started three times, has struggled late on in a race but still should be competitive, the addition of a tongue tie could help him get home. Santa Bravado showed plenty of promise on debut for a team who have a good season with their two year olds, highly respected here to go in at the second attempt. The other Andy Oliver runner Connecteo did everything wrong on debut, unseating his jockey on the way to the start and never looking happy during the race, very interesting the team haven't decided to geld him so there must be plenty of ability shown at home, if they can get this son of Teofilo to behave in the preliminaries then it could be some each way value. 

SANTA BRAVADO (WIN) 

CONNECTEO (E/W) written by Liam Hall