SURPASS AND SHINE looked well suited by the drop back to the minimum trip when proving a head too strong for re-opposing Irish Rumour when the pair met at Naas 28 days ago. Still unexposed as a sprinter, he gets the nod to confirm those placings with further progress distinctly possible. The latter-named is an obvious threat with her sole previous success coming over C&D. Beano Power is another fancied to be thereabouts.