Lil's Boy showed what he can do when conditions are right with a resounding success in yesterday's Harp Lager Ruby Stakes at Tralee and the colt could be the focus of a radical departure for his trainer Jim Bolger.

Lil's Boy, formerly owned by Sheikh Maktoum, now races in the colours of Bolger's wife Jackie and Bolger revealed: "This horse could go and race in America and while its more likely that I would find another trainer for him, I just might train him myself over there for the winter."

California or Florida would be the base options for such a venture and Bolger added: "I think he would do very well over there. This is the first time he has got his ground and he railed around there like a greyhound."

The ability to front run would be an advantage in the US also and Lil's Boy proved he can do that with a dominating performance that saw him always holding Heed My Warning, Playacting and the favourite Approvance. "We've been waiting for this kind of ground all year," said Bolger who was scoring his fifth winner of the festival.

Bolger missed out on number six when Saxophone went down by just a length to the favourite Profit Alert in one of the best betting races of the week, the Centenary Maiden. "I think the word workmanlike covers the performance," said Dermot Weld after his second winner of the meeting.

The opening novices chase may have had only six runners but Aglish Pride and Lady Daisy look to be two mares that will do very well over fences. Aglish Pride beat her rival by three-parts of a length after two exhibition rounds over the stiff Tralee obstacles and Enda Bolger will now send Aglish Pride to Galway on the opening day of the September festival.

Another winning favourite was Desert Magic who was another make all the running after being heavily backed down to 4 to 6 favourite in the seven-furlong maiden. Pat Shanahan had to get quite serious with Con Collins's filly but the trainer was satisfied with the performance. "She has won her race now and will probably go home for the winter," Collins said.

It was a memorable evening for the diminutive Killorglin-born apprentice Tim Houlihan who scored a winner on his very first ride on Robazala in the apprentice handicap. "He's no bigger than a can of Coke but he rode that horse well," said Michael Hourigan of 16 year old Houlihan.

Act Of Defiance gave Frances Crowley her fourth winner this week when overcoming Purchasing Power in the handicap hurdle while Rossmill Native quickened impressively from last to first to win the bumper.

Tipsy Creek continued his climb back towards the upper echelons of the sprint division with a convincing victory in Listed company at Newmarket yesterday. Injury and ill-health had resulted in the colt slipping down the ladder since scorching to victory in the Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot more than two years ago.But, after undergoing four operations, the son of Dayjur is beginning to recapture his earlier brilliance. A winner at Yarmouth earlier in the month, Tipsy Creek put up an even better performance in the Equity Financial Collections Hopeful Stakes.In the lead after a furlong he maintained a blistering gallop under Richard Hills to defeat Bold Edge by one and three-quarter lengths with a short head back to Bayleaf.