TRIED AND TESTED: SHAMROCK’S next best bet TESTED WON AT 100/30 yesterday. No Irish racing today so he continues to look ahead to Epsom.
Tested bounced back from her rather flat display in the Irish Guineas to win the Owenstown Stud Stakes at Naas yesterday. Winning trainer Dermot Weld said after the race: “I thought it was a very good performance. Naas has an excellent programme today and consequently they got the horses and the crowd. I thought it was a very true run race. Ansgar is a good, tough competitor and our filly came home well. It was a little soon (after the Guineas) but I was very happy with her. It was heavy ground in the Guineas. Pat went with her and she ran a very good race but didn’t get home on the testing ground.”
Weld will also have an anxious eye on the weather in Surrey as his Tarfasha has a huge chance in the Oaks but is unlikely to run if the ground is soft.
Tarfasha can be backed at around 8.2 on BETDAQ’s ante-post market but the key is very much the ground.
Weld said: “If the ground was good to yielding I would be very happy, but if it turned up soft I don’t think we’d run. She’d then go to Royal Ascot or the Irish Oaks.”
At the moment, Andrew Cooper, clerk of the course at Epsom is calling the ground good but has admitted that tomorrow is key when there is forecast rain of between 5 and 10mm.
Meanwhile, the Coronation Cup on Saturday is building up to be a cracking renewal. Last year’s Derby winner Ruler Of The World from Aidan O’Brien’s yard is one of 10 entries which also include the 2013 Oaks winner Talent and French superstar Cirrus Des Aigles who is likely to head to Epsom in preference to Royal Ascot.
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