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Alice Springs aims for her slice of glory in Pouliches

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ALICE SPRINGS with R Moore

Alice Springs: third in the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket last time

  PICTURE: Martin Lynch (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Scott Burton 7:00PM 14 MAY 2016 

Preview: France, Sunday 2.15pm BST

Deauville: Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (Group 1) 1m, 3yo fillies

MINDING may be the golden girl at Ballydoyle having brilliantly won the 1,000 Guineas last month, but there will be a special place reserved for Alice Springs if she is able to provide her trainer Aidan O’Brien with a first win in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches on Sunday.

Alice Springs was third behind Minding and her stablemate Ballydoyle at Newmarket and heads to Deauville, where the French 1,000 Guineas takes place this year due to the redevelopment of Longchamp, as the sole O’Brien representative.

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“Alice Springs ran a lovely race in the Guineas, having progressed nicely from her return at Leopardstown to Newmarket,” O’Brien said. “There’s no issue with any ease in the ground for her.”

Nathra has ground to make up on Alice Springs from a fortnight ago but previously marked herself out as one of the leaders among the British-trained fillies landing the Nell Gwyn.

Her trainer John Gosden said: “She’s been in good form since the Guineas where she ran into an outstanding winner. She could also do with a shower.”

Hope over expectation

Besharah finished three-quarters of a length ahead of Alice Springs when a close-up third in the Cheveley Park Stakes over 6f last September, though trainer William Haggas’s plans to test her stamina were probably not best served when the Fred Darling was transferred to the Chelmsford all-weather last month.

“We are going with a bit of hope and more than good judgement about the trip but she more than deserves to take her chance and I think she has come forward from her run at Chelmsford, although she will need to have,” Haggas said.

“She stayed on okay but they weren’t the same quality as the fillies she was running against as a two-year-old.”

Qemah heads the home defence, having built on an eye-catching third in last season’s Marcel Boussac when running out a decisive winner of the key trial, the Prix de la Grotte.

Her trainer Jean-Claude Rouget said: “Qemah is well. My view is not objective and so might not be worth much in terms of where she sits overall but I think she is perhaps the best of mine at least.”

 

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