REKINDLING is one of a number of smart horses that will represent Joseph O’Brien this season and he heads to York next week for a crack at the Dante Stakes. The form of his success the Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown, received a timely boost, when the second, third and fourth that day, finished first, second and third in last Sunday’s Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial.

His style of racing suggests that the colt has every chance of getting a mile and a half.