Godolphin have supplemented their unbeaten colt Cutlass Bay for Sunday’s Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh.
Fame and Glory to run at The Curragh
The four-year-old has had five previous career outings, all for Andre Fabre in France, and signed off his career there in great style by winning the Group One Prix Ganay. His likely participation sets up a mouthwatering clash with Aidan O’Brien’s Fame And Glory, who returned to winning ways in the Mooresbridge Stakes.
O’Brien has also left in the likely pacemaker Dixie Music. Adding further strength to the Group One heat is Sir Michael Stoute’s Glass Harmonium, a gutsy winner of the Gordon Richards Stakes at Sandown last time out. Dermot Weld is also chasing an elusive first success at the highest level with his classy mare Chinese White, who looked better than ever on her seasonal return at Gowran. Mick Channon’s globetrotter Halicarnassus is engaged along with Kevin Prendergast’s Recharge and that pair complete the seven remaining entries.
1000 Guineas….
Mick Channon’s Music Show and Jim Bolger’s Gile Na Greine are the headline acts among 20 fillies left in Sunday’s Etihad Airways Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh.
However Seta and Tabassum are notable absentees. Last year’s Rockfel Stakes winner Music Show had to contend with an unfavourable draw in the Newmarket version where she finished sixth, performing best of those drawn high. Gile Na Greine made a brave late bid up the rail to finish third behind Jacqueline Quest and Special Duty and she could be joined by stablemate Atasari. Stan Moore is expecting a bold run from Fillies’ Mile runner-up Lady Darshaan in Sunday’s Irish 1000 Guineas.
Canford Cliffs runs in Saturdays 2000 Guineas
In addition we are likely to see Canford Cliffs in the Irish 2000 Guineas at The Curragh. On his Website Richard Hannon says of Canford Cliffs;
Canford Cliffs has completed his preparation for next Saturday’s Irish 2000 Guineas at The Curragh, and Richard Hannon hopes that he can emulate Don’t Forget Me and Tirol, both of whom captured the Irish classic in days gone by.
That pair, of course, also won at Newmarket, whereas Canford Cliffs could finish only third in our Guineas, but Hannon has not lost faith in the horse that he has long maintained “was the best two-year-old that we have had on the place”, and it is all systems go for the trip to Kildare.
He said:”Canford Cliffs has been fine since Newmarket, and we hope that he will show everyone in Ireland what a good horse he is really is. We know what he can do on the gallops, and Royal Ascot racegoers saw for themselves in last year’s Coventry. but you want them to do it again in their classic season, and, though things did not go to script at Newbury or Newmarket, he is in great nick and we can’t wait for the race.
“They tell me that the Brits have won six of the last 10 runnings, I hope it will be seven from 11 after Saturday, and that our fellow is the one bringing home the trophy. Obviously, Xtension, who was just behind us in Newmarket,will be a threat, and, as always, there are bullish noises coming out of Ballydoyle about Steinbeck, but we think Canford Cliffs is a star, and let’s hope he can prove it.
“It could be quite a day as we also run Shamwari Lodge in a Group 3 on the same card. She has done us proud this spring and is better than ever, and she might just ice the cake.”
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