THE feature race on a tasty looking flat programme at Cork next Saturday is the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Give Thanks Stakes, the €75,000 centrepiece receiving a large contribution from the Irish EBF who are the biggest sponsors of racing in Ireland.

The race is named after the Jim Bolger-trained Give Thanks who had a sparkling season as a three-year-old back in 1983. That year she won six races including the Group 1 Irish Oaks at the Curragh, and three Group 3 races, namely the Lancashire Oaks at Haydock, the Musidora Stakes at York, and the Oaks Trial Stakes at Lingfield Park. Her placed efforts included finishing second in the Group 2 Gallinule Stakes at the Curragh and the Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster, and third in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks.