Manchester United's newest recruit makes her first public appearance at Naas racecourse today. Yes, it is a "her", as the two-year-old filly Red Coral is the first runner for the Manchester United Racing Club, of which Alex Ferguson is the president. The club, in which a spokesman says the manager and the players take an active part, has 700 members for the next two seasons and they are on the lookout for more to share in some of the Old Trafford glamour.

The club currently own five horses and Red Coral is the only one trained for them by Aidan O'Brien, who has given her some lofty entries in such as the Moyglare and the Heinz 57.

If she is to justify those entries and her breeding as a daughter of Fairy King, Red Coral will at least have to go close on her debut.

O'Brien and Micheal Kinane can also win the following conditions race where the give the $1m purchase Plato just the second start of his career.

The first resulted in an easy five-lengths defeat of Dashing-D at Leopardstown last July, but it was encouraging to watch a Ballydoyle runner with a similar profile, Manhattan, score at Tipperary on Thursday night.

There is a link to the Irish 2,000 Guineas, with Gregorian, last home in the classic, dropping back to six furlongs for the maiden. Preference in this case, though, is for Conormara, whose Stakes second to Poco A Poco last year gives her the winning of this.

Dermot Weld's Worldy Treasure is napped in the 10-furlong maiden, and the Curragh trainer also provides the best ammunition tomorrow at the same track.

Dippers has proved an expensive failure so far this season, but she needed her first start at Leopardstown and then pulled too hard for her own good over seven furlongs at the Curragh.

She's possibly not as good as we hoped, but allowed to jump and run over the six furlongs of the Unison Handicap, she should be up to beating King Of Russia and the Curragh scorer, Antrim Coast.